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Calperum Station SA 5341
Evidence-Based Landscape Restoration
Calperum and Taylorville Stations are part of the Bookmark Mallee, spanning over one million hectares of continuous native vegetation from Waikerie, SA to Scotia and Tarrawi in NSW. The landscape, once entirely pastoral, now includes a mix of production-focused properties and is managed to restore and protect its conservation and heritage values.
Many active pastoral properties, primarily sheep farms, still operate adjacent to the conservation areas within the Bookmark Mallee. These properties have significant ecological and economic value to the region. Our neighbouring land managers face a wide range of ecological and economic challenges that threaten the health, productivity, and ecological values of their land.
Applied Research
Enhancing conservation efforts at Calperum and Taylorville Stations to preserve unique biodiversity.
There are many active research projects in the area of the landscape, flora and fauna of the region.
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN)
The TERN SuperSite Network began operations in 2009 with the Calperum site being constructed in 2011. This network consists of ten sites that cover typical and important biomes in Australia. SuperSites are intensive ecosystem observatories, which examine the status and processes of Australian ecosystems. Each SuperSite comprises a main field site where standardised data sets covering vegetation, faunal and biophysical components are collected; and a transect covering at least one topographical or ecological gradient representing the ecosystems within the focal biome.
For the Calperum Supersite this transect covers the Mallee to the Murray River floodplain and considers the relationship and dependencies between these ecosystems.