Bridge to the future: Important lessons from 20 years of ecosystem observations made by the OzFlux network

How close are we to the temperature tipping point of the terrestrial biosphere?

(2021) Katharyn A. Duffy et al.   Science Advances

Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic

(2021) Dana M. Bergstrom et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Living on the edge: a continental scale assessment of forest vulnerability to drought

(2021) Jennifer M.R. Peters et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Thermal optima of gross primary productivity are closely aligned with mean air temperatures across Australian wooded ecosystems

(2021) Alison C. Bennett et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Transforming fire management in northern Australia through successful implementation of savanna burning emissions reductions projects

(2021) Andrew Edwards et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Widespread woody plant use of water stored in bedrock

(2021) Erica L. McCormick et al.   NATURE

Vast CO2 release from Australian fires in 2019–2020 constrained by satellite

(2021) Ivar R. van der Velde et al.   NATURE

Could patterns of animal behaviour cause the observed differences in soil carbon between adjacent irrigated and unirrigated pastures?

(2021) Lìyǐn L. Liáng et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Generating Spatially Robust Carbon Budgets From Flux Tower Observations

(2020) Anne Griebel et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Responses of Australian Dryland Vegetation to the 2019 Heat Wave at a Subdaily Scale

(2020) Bo Qiu et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Twenty‐five years of GCB : Putting the biology into global change

(2020) Stephen P. Long   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Plant responses to rising vapor pressure deficit

(2020) Charlotte Grossiord et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The role of climate variability in Australian drought

(2020) Andrew D. King et al.   Nature Climate Change

Harmonized global maps of above and belowground biomass carbon density in the year 2010

(2020) Seth A. Spawn et al.   Scientific Data

Temperate grazed grassland carbon balances for two adjacent paddocks determined separately from one eddy covariance system

(2020) A.M. Wall et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Carbon, water and energy fluxes in agricultural systems of Australia and New Zealand

(2020) James Cleverly et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

The effects of irrigation on carbon balance in an irrigated grazed pasture system in New Zealand

(2020) Donna L. Giltrap et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Identifying areas at risk of drought‐induced tree mortality across South‐Eastern Australia

(2020) Martin G. De Kauwe et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Net landscape carbon balance of a tropical savanna: Relative importance of fire and aquatic export in offsetting terrestrial production

(2020) Clément Duvert et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

THEMS: an automated thermal and hyperspectral proximal sensing system for canopy reflectance, radiance and temperature

(2020) William Woodgate et al.   Plant Methods

Rapid recovery of net ecosystem production in a semi-arid woodland after a wildfire

(2020) Qiaoqi Sun et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Quantifying carbon losses from periodic maize silage cropping of permanent temperate pastures

(2020) A.M. Wall et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Phenotypic Plasticity of Drought Tolerance Traits in a Widespread Eucalypt (Eucalyptus obliqua)

(2020) Carola Pritzkow et al.   Forests

Improved gap filling approach and uncertainty estimation for eddy covariance N2O fluxes

(2020) J.P. Goodrich et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Large differences in CO2 emissions from two dairy farms on a drained peatland driven by contrasting respiration rates during seasonal dry conditions

(2020) David I. Campbell et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Evaluation of Drydown Processes in Global Land Surface and Hydrological Models Using Flux Tower Evapotranspiration

(2019) Alberto Martínez-de la Torre et al.   Water

Coupled estimation of 500 m and 8-day resolution global evapotranspiration and gross primary production in 2002–2017

(2019) Yongqiang Zhang et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Low subsurface water storage capacity relative to annual rainfall decouples Mediterranean plant productivity and water use from rainfall variability

(2019) W.J. Hahm et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Flux towers in the sky: global ecology from space

(2019) David Schimel et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Mechanistic evidence for tracking the seasonality of photosynthesis with solar-induced fluorescence

(2019) Troy S. Magney et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TERN, Australia's Land Observatory: addressing the global challenge of forecasting ecosystem responses to climate variability and change

(2019) James Cleverly et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Maximum carbon uptake rate dominates the interannual variability of global net ecosystem exchange

(2019) Zheng Fu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Carbon budget of an intensively grazed temperate grassland with large quantities of imported supplemental feed

(2019) A.M. Wall et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Multi-climate mode interactions drive hydrological and vegetation responses to hydroclimatic extremes in Australia

(2019) Zunyi Xie et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Water‐use efficiency in a semi‐arid woodland with high rainfall variability

(2019) Tonantzin Tarin et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Interannual variation of terrestrial carbon cycle: Issues and perspectives

(2019) Shilong Piao et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Using 3D robust smoothing to fill land surface temperature gaps at the continental scale

(2019) Hung T. Pham et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Remote sensing of the terrestrial carbon cycle: A review of advances over 50 years

(2019) Jingfeng Xiao et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Diverse photosynthetic capacity of global ecosystems mapped by satellite chlorophyll fluorescence measurements

(2019) Liming He et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Irrigation increases forage production of newly established lucerne but enhances net ecosystem carbon losses

(2019) Johannes Laubach et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Recovery of the CO2 sink in a remnant peatland following water table lowering

(2019) Joshua L. Ratcliffe et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Carbon and water fluxes in two adjacent Australian semi-arid ecosystems

(2019) Tonantzin Tarin et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Reconciling annual nitrous oxide emissions of an intensively grazed dairy pasture determined by eddy covariance and emission factors

(2019) Anne R. Wecking et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Modelling canopy gap probability, foliage projective cover and crown projective cover from airborne lidar metrics in Australian forests and woodlands

(2019) Adrian Fisher et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Using a paired tower approach and remote sensing to assess carbon sequestration and energy distribution in a heterogeneous sclerophyll forest

(2019) Anne Griebel et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Trading Water for Carbon: Maintaining Photosynthesis at the Cost of Increased Water Loss During High Temperatures in a Temperate Forest

(2019) Anne Griebel et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Greenhouse-gas budgets for irrigated dairy pasture and a winter-forage kale crop

(2018) Johannes Laubach et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Terrestrial versus aquatic carbon fluxes in a subtropical agricultural floodplain over an annual cycle

(2018) Jackie R. Webb et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Strong radiative effect induced by clouds and smoke on forest net ecosystem productivity in central Siberia

(2018) Sung-Bin Park et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Inter-annual variability of net and gross ecosystem carbon fluxes: A review

(2018) Dennis Baldocchi et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

The AmeriFlux network: A coalition of the willing

(2018) K.A. Novick et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Seasonal, interannual and decadal drivers of tree and grass productivity in an Australian tropical savanna

(2018) Caitlin E. Moore et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Trees tolerate an extreme heatwave via sustained transpirational cooling and increased leaf thermal tolerance

(2018) John E. Drake et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Comparison of the performance of latent heat flux products over southern hemisphere forest ecosystems: estimating latent heat flux error structure using in situ measurements and the triple collocation method

(2018) Verónica Barraza Bernadas et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Quantifying soil moisture impacts on light use efficiency across biomes

(2018) Benjamin D. Stocker et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Iterative near-term ecological forecasting: Needs, opportunities, and challenges

(2018) Michael C. Dietze et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TerraClimate, a high-resolution global dataset of monthly climate and climatic water balance from 1958–2015

(2018) John T. Abatzoglou et al.   Scientific Data

Warming and Elevated CO2 Have Opposing Influences on Transpiration. Which is more Important?

(2018) Miko U. F. Kirschbaum et al.   Current Forestry Reports

The surface-atmosphere exchange of carbon dioxide in tropical rainforests: Sensitivity to environmental drivers and flux measurement methodology

(2018) Zheng Fu et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

The ecohydrological context of drought and classification of plant responses

(2018) Xue Feng et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Revisiting Pan Evaporation Trends in Australia a Decade on

(2018) Clare M. Stephens et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Beyond isohydricity: The role of environmental variability in determining plant drought responses

(2018) Xue Feng et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Water table fluctuations control CO2 exchange in wet and dry bogs through different mechanisms

(2018) Joshua L. Ratcliffe et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Evergreen and ever growing – Stem and canopy growth dynamics of a temperate eucalypt forest

(2017) Anne Griebel et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Hydrologic refugia, plants, and climate change

(2017) Blair C. McLaughlin et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Compensatory water effects link yearly global land CO2 sink changes to temperature

(2017) Martin Jung et al.   NATURE

How do leaf and ecosystem measures of water-use efficiency compare?

(2017) Belinda E. Medlyn et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Global satellite observations of column-averaged carbon dioxide and methane: The GHG-CCI XCO 2 and XCH 4 CRDP3 data set

(2017) M. Buchwitz et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

The trade-offs between milk production and soil organic carbon storage in dairy systems under different management and environmental factors

(2017) Miko U.F. Kirschbaum et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Parallel Seasonal Patterns of Photosynthesis, Fluorescence, and Reflectance Indices in Boreal Trees

(2017) Kyle Springer et al.   Remote Sensing

Effect of environmental conditions on the relationship between solar-induced fluorescence and gross primary productivity at an OzFlux grassland site

(2017) Manish Verma et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Responses of LAI to rainfall explain contrasting sensitivities to carbon uptake between forest and non-forest ecosystems in Australia

(2017) Longhui Li et al.   Scientific Reports

Productivity and evapotranspiration of two contrasting semiarid ecosystems following the 2011 global carbon land sink anomaly

(2016) James Cleverly et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Effects of inhomogeneities within the flux footprint on the interpretation of seasonal, annual, and interannual ecosystem carbon exchange

(2016) Anne Griebel et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Natural hazards in Australia: heatwaves

(2016) S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Natural hazards in Australia: droughts

(2016) Anthony S. Kiem et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Land surface models systematically overestimate the intensity, duration and magnitude of seasonal-scale evaporative droughts

(2016) A M Ukkola et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Process contributions of Australian ecosystems to interannual variations in the carbon cycle

(2016) Vanessa Haverd et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Irrigating grazed pasture decreases soil carbon and nitrogen stocks

(2016) Paul L. Mudge et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Carbon cycle responses of semi-arid ecosystems to positive asymmetry in rainfall

(2016) Vanessa Haverd et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The Plumbing of Land Surface Models: Is Poor Performance a Result of Methodology or Data Quality?

(2016) Ned Haughton et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

A roadmap for improving the representation of photosynthesis in Earth system models

(2016) Alistair Rogers et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Leaf development and demography explain photosynthetic seasonality in Amazon evergreen forests

(2016) J. Wu et al.   SCIENCE

The Australian SuperSite Network: A continental, long-term terrestrial ecosystem observatory

(2016) Mirko Karan et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Soil moisture controls on phenology and productivity in a semi-arid critical zone

(2016) James Cleverly et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The Effect of GOSAT Observations on Estimates of Net CO2 Flux in Semi-Arid Regions of the Southern Hemisphere

(2016) Masayuki Kondo et al.   SOLA

Spaceborne Sun-Induced Vegetation Fluorescence Time Series from 2007 to 2015 Evaluated with Australian Flux Tower Measurements

(2016) Abram Sanders et al.   Remote Sensing

Valuation of ecosystem services to inform management of multiple-use landscapes

(2016) Shan Ma et al.   Ecosystem Services

The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship

(2016) Mark D. Wilkinson et al.   Scientific Data

Short-term favorable weather conditions are an important control of interannual variability in carbon and water fluxes

(2016) Jakob Zscheischler et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

The importance of interacting climate modes on Australia’s contribution to global carbon cycle extremes

(2016) James Cleverly et al.   Scientific Reports

Drought rapidly diminishes the large net CO2 uptake in 2011 over semi-arid Australia

(2016) Xuanlong Ma et al.   Scientific Reports

Passive microwave and optical index approaches for estimating surface conductance and evapotranspiration in forest ecosystems

(2015) Verónica Barraza et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

The effect of land-use change on the net exchange rates of greenhouse gases: A compilation of estimates

(2015) Dong-Gill Kim et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Carbon balance of an intensively grazed temperate dairy pasture over four years

(2015) S. Rutledge et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Variations in CO2 exchange for dairy farms with year-round rotational grazing on drained peatlands

(2015) David I. Campbell et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Fossil evidence for open, Proteaceae-dominated heathlands and fire in the Late Cretaceous of Australia

(2015) Raymond J. Carpenter et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Regional-scale analysis of carbon and water cycles on managed grassland systems

(2015) Shaoxiu Ma et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

Anomalous carbon uptake in Australia as seen by GOSAT

(2015) R. G. Detmers et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Evaporation of perennial semi-arid woodland in southeastern Australia is adapted for irregular but common dry periods

(2015) W. S. Meyer et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Modelling carbon and water exchange of a grazed pasture in New Zealand constrained by eddy covariance measurements

(2015) Miko U.F. Kirschbaum et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Development and evaluation of a new soil moisture and runoff parameterization for the CABLE LSM including subgrid-scale processes

(2015) Mark Decker   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle

(2014) Benjamin Poulter et al.   NATURE

Savanna Vegetation-Fire-Climate Relationships Differ Among Continents

(2014) C. E. R. Lehmann et al.   SCIENCE

Canopy position affects the relationships between leaf respiration and associated traits in a tropical rainforest in Far North Queensland

(2014) L. K. Weerasinghe et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Increasing frequency of extreme El Niño events due to greenhouse warming

(2014) Wenju Cai et al.   Nature Climate Change

Primary and secondary effects of climate variability on net ecosystem carbon exchange in an evergreen Eucalyptus forest

(2013) Eva van Gorsel et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Carbon and water fluxes in an arid-zone Acacia savanna woodland: An analyses of seasonal patterns and responses to rainfall events

(2013) Derek Eamus et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Impacts of an extreme cyclone event on landscape-scale savanna fire, productivity and greenhouse gas emissions

(2013) L B Hutley et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Australia's unique influence on global sea level in 2010-2011

(2013) John T. Fasullo et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Ecosystem resilience despite large-scale altered hydroclimatic conditions

(2013) Guillermo E. Ponce-Campos et al.   NATURE

Spatial patterns and temporal dynamics in savanna vegetation phenology across the North Australian Tropical Transect

(2013) Xuanlong Ma et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Anthropogenic CO2 emissions

(2013) M. R. Raupach et al.   Nature Climate Change

Climate change and Australia

(2013) Lesley Head et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change

Dynamics of component carbon fluxes in a semi-aridAcaciawoodland, central Australia

(2013) James Cleverly et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

An analysis of the surface energy budget above the world's tallest angiosperm forest

(2012) Musa Kilinc et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Improving the responses of the Australian community land surface model (CABLE) to seasonal drought

(2012) Longhui Li et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Documenting improvement in leaf area index estimates from MODIS using hemispherical photos for Australian savannas

(2011) William B. Sea et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

A sub-continental scale living laboratory: Spatial patterns of savanna vegetation over a rainfall gradient in northern Australia

(2011) Lindsay B. Hutley et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Patterns and processes of carbon, water and energy cycles across northern Australian landscapes: From point to region

(2011) Jason Beringer et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Dynamics of carbon exchange in a Eucalyptus forest in response to interacting disturbance factors

(2011) H. Keith et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Carbon balance of an intensively grazed temperate pasture in two climatically contrasting years

(2011) P.L. Mudge et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

The 10 Australian ecosystems most vulnerable to tipping points

(2011) William F. Laurance et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Optimal Fire Regimes for Soil Carbon Storage in Tropical Savannas of Northern Australia

(2011) Anna E. Richards et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Actual evapotranspiration estimation by ground and remote sensing methods: the Australian experience

(2011) Edward P. Glenn et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Diagnosing errors in a land surface model (CABLE) in the time and frequency domains

(2011) Ying Ping Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Patterns and controls of the variability of radiation use efficiency and primary productivity across terrestrial ecosystems

(2009) Martín F. Garbulsky et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Estimation of Tropical Cyclone Wind Hazard for Darwin: Comparison with Two Other Locations and the Australian Wind-Loading Code

(2009) Garry D. Cook et al.   Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Scaling of potential evapotranspiration with MODIS data reproduces flux observations and catchment water balance observations across Australia

(2009) Juan Pablo Guerschman et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Evaluation of Collections 4 and 5 of the MODIS Gross Primary Productivity product and algorithm improvement at a tropical savanna site in northern Australia

(2009) K.D. Kanniah et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

TURNER REVIEW No. 15.'Breathing' of the terrestrial biosphere: lessons learned from a global network of carbon dioxide flux measurement systems

(2008) Dennis Baldocchi   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

A review of tower flux observation sites in Asia

(2008) Yasuko Mizoguchi et al.   Journal of Forest Research

Leaf chlorophyll content retrieval from airborne hyperspectral remote sensing imagery

(2008) Yongqin Zhang et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Oscillating peat surface levels in a restiad peatland, New Zealand-magnitude and spatiotemporal variability

(2007) Christian Fritz et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES