[1] TERN has also been described as "Australia’s terrestrial ecosystem observatory": it provides empirical data to Australian and foreign institutions.
[2] As of 2021, TERN boasted that its infrastructure has been instrumental in the publication of over 1,000 academic articles.
[1] As of 2021, TERN was funded by NCRIS, an Australian government initiative.
[8] The Daintree Rainforest Observatory (DRO), in Cape Tribulation, is monitored by TERN.
[9] TERN provides three ranges of infrastructure: environmental monitoring at continental scale, a large collection of research plots, and a more limited collection of intensively monitored sites.