«Monitoring changes in the Australian Environment - From tall forests to our arid interior»

natacha.fontaine@sbf.ulaval.ca

Frais d'inscription: Site web: Conférentier: Contact: Australia is a large country with diverse environments ranging from alpine areas, tall eucalypt forests to large deserts through much of the interior, and a range of environments in between. Monitoring changes in, and across these environments is important. In Australia TERN (The Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network) provides researchers with the infrastructure to do just that. It provides them with quality, standardised data across much of our country to enable researchers to conduct their work at scales that would not be possible from traditional research funding sources. Information on ecological process is obtained from 12 well instrumented Flux and supersites, extensive information is collected at around 600 surveillance plots, including those located in our tall eucalypt ecosystems, and a range of remote sensing products are produced and disseminated at the landscape scale. Our infrastructure has been used to help assess the extent of forests in drylands globally, to assess areas suitable for sampling soils to maximise the likelihood of drug discovery, to understand the dynamics of predator and prey interactions in our desert ecosystems along with many other examples. Ben will explain the environmental research infrastructure and how it is being utilised by researchers internationally and provide further information on TERN's surveillance monitoring capability, the component of tern that Ben leads.
Natacha Fontaine
Ben Sparrow, professeur associé à la School of Biological Sciences à l'University of Adelaide en Australie
http://www.cef-cfr.ca/
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