Supersite (Flux Tower and Core 1-hectare Plot)

Value

The data provided by the Ozflux network is used nationally to improve the reliability of continental-scale models such as those for climate and productivity. The Ozflux data contributes to a global network of flux sites (Fluxnet) providing a much-needed southern hemisphere balance to our scientific understanding of the global carbon and water cycles. The data also provides new insights into how particular ecosystems function.

The value of the flux site to forest management is in better understanding about how productivity of tall, wet eucalypt forest varies in response to weather conditions. Extreme weather events are of particular interest: we need to identify any vulnerability these forests have to such events and use that knowledge to help devise ways we can manage the forests to lessen the adverse impacts of climate change.