90ecd9ed-9ed2-448a-9d55-2b646c3fa386 urn:uuid eng UTF-8 nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset 2025-06-25T06:32:43 creation ISO 19115 2016 TERN Ecosystem Surveillance Monitoring 90ecd9ed-9ed2-448a-9d55-2b646c3fa386 TERN Ecosystem Surveillance is a plot-based field monitoring platform that tracks the direction and magnitude of change in Australia’s environments. Information on soils and vegetation is collected according to standardized, widely endorsed and consistent protocols across all plots, and includes the collection of soil and vegetation samples for subsequent analysis. Data collected by TERN is stratified across the entire continent to ensure adequate coverage of major Australian ecosystems, and measures are repeated at least once a decade, with the aim to establish replicate plots throughout the ecosystem types existing within Australia’s Major Vegetation Groups (MVG’s). Additional plots located in key environmental transition zones will be re-measured every five to ten years. TERN users include researchers, land managers and policy-makers who require access to terrestrial ecosystem attributes collected over time from continental scale to field sites at hundreds of representative locations. TERN provides model-ready data that enables users to detect and interpret changes in ecosystems. In addition, TERN curates The TERN Australia Soil and Herbarium Collection, with over 180,000 vegetation and soil samples (and associated contextual environmental data), available to loan through the EcoPlots Samples portal via an Expression of Interest. TERN’s world-class surveillance monitoring infrastructure will support long-term ecological inventory, environmental monitoring, environmental prediction, reporting and assessment, and underpin decisions about our greatest environmental challenges. {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[112.499383, -44.339565], [154.335938, -44.339565], [154.335938, -10.0], [112.499383, -10.0], [112.499383, -44.339565]]]} 112.499383 154.335938 -44.339565 -10.0 TERN Ecosystem Surveillance Monitoring TERN Surveillance Monitoring Ausplots Rangelands Survey Protocols Manual documentDigital Related documentation HTML AusPlots Rangelands Survey Protocols Manual documentDigital Method documentation HTML TERN Ecosystem Surveillance Data documentDigital HTML Ausplots Rangelands Survey Protocols Manual documentDigital Related documentation HTML AusPlots Rangelands Survey Protocols Manual documentDigital Method documentation HTML TERN EcoPlots API documentDigital HTML Ausplots Rangelands Survey Protocols Manual documentDigital Related documentation HTML AusPlots Rangelands Survey Protocols Manual documentDigital Method documentation HTML ro-crate-metadata.json documentDigital HTML Unnamed resource documentDigital PNG