Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities - Grant ID: LE210100035

建立澳大利亚关键区域观测网。这个提议建立了一个新的澳大利亚关键区域观测站网络。该网络将填补有关地下和地上环境过程相互作用及其对干扰和变化的反应的基本知识空白。这些相互作用决定了食物、清洁水、矿产资源和澳大利亚生态系统的可持续性，无法用现有的环境基础设施进行研究。这5个基础站点将安装综合监测设备，以观察从植物冠层到新鲜基岩的垂直跨度“关键地带”的碳、水、能量和质量的储量和通量。加入一个新兴的国际运动，该网络将催化澳大利亚的关键区域科学。

Founding an Australian Critical Zone Observatory Network. This proposal founds a new network of Australian Critical Zone Observatories. The network will fill essential knowledge gaps about interactions of under- and above-ground environmental processes and their responses to disturbance and change. These interactions determine the sustainability of food, clean water, mineral resources and Australian ecosystems, and cannot be studied with existing environmental infrastructure. The 5 foundational sites will host integrated monitoring equipment to observe stocks and fluxes of carbon, water, energy and mass across the “Critical Zone” – the vertical span from plant canopies to fresh bedrock. Joining a burgeoning international movement, the network will catalyse Critical Zone science in Australia.