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Purpose

The purpose of the Gingin flux station is:

• To quantify recharge to Gnangara groundwater mound, Perth’s most important water resource

• Monitor ecophysiological responses to long-term variation in climate and water table drawdown

• To quantify landscape-scale exchange of carbon dioxide, water vapour and energy in a coastal heath environment

• To further understand groundwater recharge under changing climate

• To provide ecophysiological and micrometeorological data representative of an important biome within Australia subject to drying climate, falling watertables, fire and encroachment of feral species

• To provide enhanced datasets of landscape-scale exchange of carbon dioxide, water vapour and energy along with ecophysiological characteristics and drivers in a semi-arid temperate ecosystems in Australia.