Biodiversity and Environmental Change: Monitoring, Challenges and Direction - Hardcover

9780643108561: Biodiversity and Environmental Change: Monitoring, Challenges and Direction

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0643108564 ISBN 13: 9780643108561

Publisher: CSIRO Publishing, 2014

Long-term ecological data are critical for informing long-term trends in biodiversity and trends in environmental change. The Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) is a major initiative of the Australian Government and one of its key areas of investment is to provide funding for a network of longterm ecological research plots around Australia (LTERN).

This book highlights some of the temporal changes in the environment and/or in biodiversity that have occurred in different ecosystems, ranging from tropical rainforests, wet eucalypt forests and alpine regions through to rangelands and deserts. Many important trends and changes are documented and they often provide new insights that were previously poorly understood or unknown. These data are precisely the kinds of data so desperately needed to better quantify the temporal trajectories in the environment and biodiversity in Australia.

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About the Author

David Lindenmayer is Professor of Conservation Science in the Fenner School of Environment and Society and Science Director of the Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTERN) sub-facility within TERN. David is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and an ARC Laureate Fellow.

Emma Burns is a conservation biologist in the Fenner School of Environment and Society and Executive Director of the Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTERN) within TERN.

Nicole Thurgate is an Associate Professor of Research at the University of Adelaide, Australia and the director of the Multi-Scale Plot Network within TERN.

Andrew Lowe is Professor of Plant Conservation Biology and Director of the Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity at the University of Adelaide, Head of Science for the South Australian Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, and Associate Science Director of TERN.

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