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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...
State and trends of biodiversity
2016, 2011 Assessment summaryBiodiversity State and trends Coastal and marine species and ecosystemsFreshwater species and ecosystemsTerrestrial plant and animal species: Threatened species listsTerrestrial ecosystems and communitiesGenetic and species...
Number of Atlas of Living Australia records, pre-2012 and 2015 for (a) arthropods, reptiles, mammals, amphibians, fungi, fish, insects and other invertebrates
2016 GraphNumber of Atlas of Living Australia records, pre-2012 and 2015 for (a) arthropods, reptiles, mammals, amphibians, fungi, fish, insects and other invertebrates Number of Atlas of Living Australia records, pre-2012 and 2015 for (a) arthropods, reptiles, mammals,...
Overview of effectiveness of management of biodiversity
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Effectiveness of management A key policy initiative for threatened species management since 2011 has been the development of the Threatened Species Strategy (DoE 2015b). Currently, 20 mammals and 20 ...
Figure BIO13 Net changes in the number of species listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 since 2000
2016 GraphNet changes in the number of EPBC listed species post 2000 Net changes in the number of EPBC listed species post 2000 FloraInvertebratesBirdsMammalsFishReptilesFrogs 20000000000 2001114211310 2002129712310 20036111812510 20046511813710...
Figure BIO19 Cumulative historical extinctions of Australian mammal species
2016 GraphCumulative historical extinctions of Australian mammal species, 1790–2010 Cumulative historical extinctions of Australian mammal species, 1790–2010 Cumulative number of extinct mammal species 17900 18000 18100 18200 18300 18401 18503 18605...
Figure BIO7 Phylogenetic diversity and phylogenetic endemism for (a) vascular plants, (b) mammals, (c) passerine birds, (d) snakes and lizards, (e) myobatrachid frogs and (f) hylid frogs
2016 MapDownload as pngDownload dataset Source: Australian Natural Heritage Assessment Tool, 2016, Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy Figure BIO7 Phylogenetic diversity and phylogenetic endemism for (a) vascular plants, (b) mammals, (c) passerine birds...
Figure BIO20 Numbers of mammal species and critically endangered mammal species listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 in each Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia region
2016 MapDownload as pngDownload dataset Source: Environmental Resources Information Network, Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy, 2016 Figure BIO20 Numbers of mammal species and critically endangered mammal species listed under the Environment Protection...
Figure BIO29 (a) Number of records in the Atlas of Living Australia, by Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia region, 2012; (b) percentage increase in number of records between 2012 and 2015
2016 MapDownload as pngDownload dataset Source: Environmental Resources Information Network, Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy, 2016 using data from the Atlas of Living Australia (licensed under CC by 3.0) Figure BIO29 Records in the Atlas of Living...
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...
State and trends of biodiversity 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceUnderstanding of the state and trends of the vast majority of individual species in Australia is limited. The lack of effective monitoring data for understanding state and trends, even for threatened species, is highlighted by every jurisdiction and all previous state of the...
Effectiveness of biodiversity management 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceThis report has documented the widespread lack of consistent long-term data for assessing the effectiveness of investments in biodiversity management in Australia. Although it is reasonable to assume that there are many program-related examples that link investment to positive...
Importance of biodiversity
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Introduction Tasmania Great Barrier Reef Biodiversity is important to humans for many reasons. Biodiversity is also considered by many to have...
Availability of information
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Pressures No consistent national-level data are available on the impact of pressures on all aspects of biodiversity in the past 5 years. The Australian Government released a Threatened Species...
Spatial distribution of pressures
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Pressures There has been no updated overall synthesis of the spatial distribution of pressures affecting biodiversity in the past 5 years. A 2015 publication (Lee et al. 2015) assessed the spatial...
Global climate change and climate variability
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Pressures Tasmania All recent state and territory SoE reports note the adverse effects of global climate change on biodiversity. These increasingly include extreme weather, as...
Consumption and extraction of natural resources
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Pressures Murray Darling Tasmania Harvesting of species The impact of harvesting is considered a potential threat to 30 per cent of listed threatened...
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...
Altered fire regimes
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Pressures The Land report describes how fire frequencies have increased in Australia during the past decade. Alteration in fire regimes is considered a major threat that has contributed to the...
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...
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...
Genetic and species diversity
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity State and trends Photo by David Westcott Hibiscus harlequin bug (Tectocoris diophthalmus) nymph feeding on a beach almond (Terminalia catappa) fruit, Hope Island near...
Freshwater species and ecosystems
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity State and trends Murray Darling Tasmania Great Barrier Reef Australian Capital Territory Lake Eyre...
Coastal and marine species and ecosystems
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity State and trends Murray Darling North East Coast Tasmania Greater Darwin Greater Hobart...
Management capacity
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Effectiveness of management Tasmania Australian Capital Territory Jurisdictional reporting on management effectiveness It is has been widely...
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...
Introduction 2016
2016 At a glanceAt 13.86 million square kilometres, Australia’s marine environment is the third largest marine jurisdiction in the world (Symonds et al. 2009). It is home to a diverse array of marine species, including marine mammals and reptiles; more than 4000 species of fish; and tens of thousands of...
Marine regions
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Introduction Tasmania Marine Temperate East Marine South West Great Barrier Reef Marine North...
