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Overview of resilience of biodiversity
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Resilience Resilience is a key underpinning principle of biodiversity strategies at all levels of government. However, the definition of resilience in most strategies and policies is still relatively...
Overview of state and trends of the marine environment
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment State and trends Great Barrier Reef Marine North Marine North West Marine South East Marine...
State and trends in indicators of marine ecosystem health
2016, 2011 Assessment summaryThis assessment summary has changed since 2011 This assessment summary combines ecological processes, physical...
Risks to inland water environments 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceRisks to inland water environments include direct risks (such as direct water extraction, or changes in run-off and recharge) and indirect risks (such as expansion of invasive species because of increased tourism). Climate changes may produce both types of risks. Updated climate...
Water flows and levels
2016 Report Content2016 Inland water State and trends South East Coast South West Coast Murray Darling North East Coast Tasmania...
Groundwater resources
2016 Report Content2016 Inland water State and trends South East Coast South West Coast South Australian Gulf North Western Plateau...
Water management in Australia
2016 Report Content2016 Inland water Effectiveness of management We have significant and expanding knowledge of the relationships between water management actions and ecological condition that are essential for effective management. Much...
Water abstraction and interception
2016 Report Content2016 Inland water Risks Three factors contribute to the risk posed by increasing water abstraction and interception: the demands of a growing population increases in per-person water consumption for this population...
Jurisdictional reporting on pressures
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Pressures Tasmania Greater Darwin Australian Capital Territory Each state and territory in Australia has highlighted a range of...
Changed hydrology
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Pressures Murray Darling Surface-water and groundwater conditions have varied considerably since 2011, largely in response to climate. Changes to flows and water levels are...
Terrestrial ecosystems and communities
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity State and trends Murray Darling Tasmania Great Barrier Reef Australian Capital Territory The Interim...
Management context
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Effectiveness of management Great Barrier Reef Biodiversity management is undertaken at all levels of government, by private enterprise, and by thousands of landholders and...
Management initiatives and investments
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Effectiveness of management Biodiversity funding NRM funding provides key measures that include many practical elements of protecting and sustainably managing biodiversity. For the past 30 years, the...
Management status
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Effectiveness of management Murray Darling Tasmania National Reserve System and National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas Australia has...
Managing biodiversity for resilience
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Resilience The ability of ecosystems to tolerate and recover from disturbance is a phenomenon that is vitally important to understand. Resilience has stimulated much valuable research that has...
Factors affecting resilience capacity
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Resilience Murray Darling Tasmania Multiple factors acting at various levels of organisation, from species to landscapes, will interact to determine...
State and trends of the marine environment 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceReporting on the current state and recent trends of the biological and ecological components of Australia’s marine environment is highly variable across Australia’s marine estate, and is often inadequate for robust assessment. There are few coordinated, sustained monitoring...
Outlook for the marine environment 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceThe contribution of the marine environment to the economy is projected to continue to grow 3 times faster than Australia’s gross domestic product in the next decade. It is in Australia’s interest that our ocean ecosystems continue to bring economic, cultural and social benefits...
Resilience of marine systems
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Resilience Tasmania Great Barrier Reef The concept of resilience is not straightforward, with definitions varying across social and scientific...
Outlook for heritage 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceIf our heritage includes those places that we have ‘inherited’ and want to pass on to future generations, then the notion of ‘outlook’ is an essential element of heritage. The outlook for Australia’s heritage will depend on the manner in which the Australian Heritage Strategy is...
Pressures on natural heritage
2016 Report Content2016 Heritage Pressures Lake Eyre Our terrestrial and marine natural heritage is susceptible to the general pressures arising from climate change outlined above, as well as some of the...
Box HER11 Great Eastern Ranges Initiative
2016 Case StudyThe Great Eastern Ranges Initiative (GERI 2016) is a strategic response to the ongoing decline and mass extinction of native species in eastern Australia. It draws together industry, government and nongovernment organisations that are active in the conservation of our...
Box HER39 Promoting ecological connectivity in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area through collaboration, solutions-based research and statutory processes
2016 Case StudyUnder the Operational guidelines for the implementation of the World Heritage Convention, ‘to be deemed of outstanding universal value, a property must also meet the conditions of integrity and/or authenticity and must have an adequate protection and management system to...
Figure MAR33 (a) Two Maps of the connectivity of habitats for marine larvae via source–sink pathways
2016 MapDownload as pngDownload dataset State and trends of indicators of marine ecosystem health: Ecologial processes
Biodiversity: Threatened species
2016 Report Content2016 Coasts State and trends South West Coast North East Coast Tasmania Greater Brisbane Greater Darwin...
Biodiversity: Species groups
2016 Report Content2016 Coasts State and trends South East Coast Murray Darling North East Coast Tasmania Timor Sea...
Biodiversity: Habitat-forming species
2016 Report Content2016 Coasts State and trends South West Coast South Australian Gulf North East Coast Tasmania Greater Darwin...
Biodiversity: Ecological processes
2016 Report Content2016 Coasts State and trends Tasmania Greater Brisbane Great Barrier Reef East Coast Connectivity Connectivity among...
State and trends of indicators of marine ecosystem health: Ecologial processes
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment State and trends Tasmania Marine Temperate East Marine South West Great Barrier Reef Marine...
State and trends of indicators of marine ecosystem health: Physical, biogeochemical and biological processes
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment State and trends Marine Temperate East Marine South West Great Barrier Reef East Coast Marine...
