A research team based at the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training, at the Flinders University of South Australia, recently reported an opposite temporal pattern of terrestrial water storage (TWS) between eastern and western Australia. The researchers […]
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With projected increases in temperature in the future, the amount of water vapour that can be held at saturation increases exponentially. This increased capacity by the atmosphere to hold water (or increased vapour pressure deficit), has important implications […]
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Version 2 of the Fine-Root Ecology Database is bigger, better, and free to download and use. Fine roots are complex and dynamic structures that serve many critical roles for land plants. Their well-known importance for acquiring water and […]
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King Billy pines don’t really look all that impressive — they’re not the biggest, prettiest or widest of trees — but they can tell us a lot about our history. Athrotaxis selaginoides, known as King Billy or King […]
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For the Northern Jarrah Forest (NJF) region of southwest Western Australia, Landsat satellite imagery supports more accurate forest sensitivity analysis than airborne monitoring survey by plane. Recent work by Dr Niels Brouwers, and his fellow researchers indicates that […]
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Drought has affected most regions of the globe in the early 21st-century. In Australia, the recent Millennium Drought from 2001 until 2009 was the worst on record and ended dramatically with one of the largest La Niña […]
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Ecosystems dependent on groundwater can suffer from changes in groundwater availability, for example due to pumping. However, groundwater can be found at some depth below most ecosystems, which makes it challenging to determine which ecosystems should be regarded to be dependent on […]
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