The Research Centre for Applied Alpine Ecology and two of its members, Dick Williams and John Morgan, recently featured in an article in TERN Newsletter (June 2017) announcing that 70-years of long-term monitoring data are now available online via the TERN Data Discovery Portal.

Data supplied by the Research Centre for Applied Alpine Ecology covers 70-years of data from Victorian Alpine Plot Network  which has captured a long history of the sites’ vegetation and ground cover condition change, represented by an exceptionally diverse set of population-related observations totaling over 200,000 records.

This data is not only increasing our understanding of impacts such as fire, grazing and exotic species invasions, but also informing land-management decisions by government agencies and private enterprise and helping document a small but important part of the Alps’ natural heritage.

Article in TERN Newsletter, June 2017