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Contemporary land-use pressures on the land environment
2016, 2011 Assessment summaryLand Pressures Contemporary land-use pressures Year...
State and trends of soil erosion by water and wind
2016, 2011 Assessment summaryLand State and trends Soil: Formation and erosion Year...
State and trends of soil carbon
2016, 2011 Assessment summaryLand State and trends Soil: Carbon dynamics Year...
State and trends of soil acidification
2016, 2011 Assessment summaryLand State and trends Soil: Salinity and acidification Year...
State and trends of water quality
2016, 2011 Assessment summaryInland water State and trends Water qualityWater quality South East CoastSouth West CoastSouth Australian GulfNorth Western PlateauMurray DarlingNorth East CoastSouth Western PlateauTasmaniaTimor SeaLake Eyre...
Pressures affecting biodiversity
2016, 2011 Assessment summaryBiodiversity Pressures Pressures facing aquatic ecosystemsChanged hydrologyAltered fire regimesPest species and pathogensPressures from livestock productionUrban developmentPollutionGlobal climate change and climate...
Effectiveness of land management
2016, 2011 Assessment summaryLand Effectiveness of management Human capitalManagement contextResources and capacity for managementHuman capital...
Overview of state and trends of biodiversity
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity State and trends What has changed since 2011? The list of nationally threatened species and ecological communities has increased, with the addition of 30 new ecological communities, and 44 animal and...
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...
Changing land use and management
2016 Report Content2016 Inland water Pressures Tasmania Great Barrier Reef Land use and land management can produce pressures on aquatic environments that include changes to flow, water...
Pressures affecting biodiversity 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceThe pressures affecting biodiversity remain largely consistent with those identified in the 1996, 2001, 2006 and 2011 state of the environment reports. The most significant current pressures are clearing, fragmentation and declining quality of habitat; invasive species; climate...
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...
Pressures from livestock production
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Pressures Livestock production is the dominant land use in the extensive land-use zone of Australia (see the Land report for further information). It is considered a major contributing factor to the...
Pest species and pathogens
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Pressures Murray Darling Tasmania Australian Capital Territory Pest plants, pest animals and pathogens have been identified by...
Interactions among pressures
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Pressures Few of the pressures documented in this section occur in isolation. Rather, pressures interact in complex ways, often compounding the threat to biodiversity. For example, land clearing...
Pressures affecting the land environment 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceAlthough a changing climate has shaped the Australian landscape and its vegetation, the current rate of climate change is likely to result in changes in the distribution and composition of vegetation communities. Some communities are likely to disappear, and others will be...
State and trends of the land environment 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceThe area of land managed for conservation has continued to expand, in both private and public sectors. This is partly due to a decrease in the area of native forest managed for production of timber and wood products. The area formally owned and managed by Indigenous Australians...
Contemporary land-use pressures
2016 Report Content2016 Land Pressures Murray Darling North East Coast Great Barrier Reef East Coast Greater Sydney...
Land use and management
2016 Report Content2016 Land State and trends North East Coast Great Barrier Reef Australia’s population is concentrated along the eastern, south-eastern and south-western coastal fringes...
Box WAT3 Great Barrier Reef catchments: best management practices
2016 Case StudyFarming practices in reef catchments have received significant attention in recent years as part of an initiative to improve reef water quality, and to slow or stop declines in the condition of coral reefs and seagrass meadows. The Queensland and Australian governments are...
State and trends of marine biodiversity: Quality of habitats and communities
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment State and trends Tasmania Marine Temperate East Marine South West Great Barrier Reef East...
Pressures from livestock production
2011 Report Content2011 Biodiversity Pressures North Western Plateau South Western Plateau Timor Sea Lake Eyre Indian Ocean...
