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State and trends of the Antarctic atmosphere
2016, 2011 Assessment summaryAntarctic environment State and trends The physical environment: The atmosphere—climate and weather patterns Antarctica...
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...
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...
Outlook for inland water environments 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceClimate and pests remain the largest pressures on our inland water environments. Climate variability and climate change, and associated changes in rainfall regimes, are the primary risks to inland water environments in both the short and long term. Efforts will need to continue to...
Figure WAT15 Extract of the ecosystem health report card for the Theresa catchment in the Queensland Fitzroy Basin, 2014
2016 MapDownload as pngDownload dataset Source: Fitzroy Partnership for River Health (n.d.) Figure WAT15 Extract of the ecosystem health report card for the Theresa catchment in the Queensland Fitzroy Basin, 2014 Water quality
Inland water: 2011–16 in context
2016 Report Content2016 Inland water Introduction Murray Darling Tasmania The past 5 years opened with widespread heavy rainfall and extensive flooding in Queensland, New South Wales and...
Water quality
2016 Report Content2016 Inland water State and trends South East Coast South West Coast Murray Darling North East Coast Tasmania...
Climate change
2016 Report Content2016 Inland water Risks South East Coast South Australian Gulf North Western Plateau Murray Darling North East Coast...
Land and water use and management
2016 Report Content2016 Inland water Risks Murray Darling Risks from changes to land management arise mainly through potential hydrological and water quality changes, whereas those from water management relate to...
Figure ANT3 Annual average daily maximum and minimum temperatures, smoothed with a 5-year running mean, for Australia’s Casey, Davis (from 1957) and Mawson (from 1954) Antarctic research stations, and subantarctic Macquarie Island (from 1948)
2016 GraphAverage daily maximum and minimum temperatures (smoothed with a 5-year running mean) for Australia's Antarctic stations, 1948–2013 Average daily maximum and minimum temperatures (smoothed with a 5-year running mean) for Australia's Antarctic stations, 1948...
Figure ANT4 Summer (December–February) average temperature anomaly of daily maximum temperatures (annual average of the monthly mean daily maximum temperature deseasonalised by the summer mean for 1971–2000) for Mawson and Macquarie Island
2016 GraphTemperature anomalies at Mawson station and Macquarie Island station, December–February, 1948–2014 Temperature anomalies at Mawson station and Macquarie Island station, December–February, 1948–2014 DJF MAX MawsonDJF MAX Macquarie Island 1948-1.27 1949-1...
Figure MAR6 Percentage of the Australian exclusive economic zone experiencing extreme sea surface temperatures, 1981–2016
2016 GraphPercentage of the Australian exclusive economic zone experiencing extreme sea surface temperatures, 1981–2016 Percentage of the Australian exclusive economic zone experiencing extreme sea surface temperatures, 1981–2016 Monthly percentThree-month running mean...
Figure MAR5 Decadal sea surface temperature trend per month (degrees per decade), 1982–2015
2016 MapDownload as pngDownload dataset Source: Data from the Australian Ocean Data Network and NASA VIEW ANIMATION Figure MAR5 Decadal sea surface temperature trend per month (degrees per decade), 1982–2015 Climate change
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...
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...
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...
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...
Evidence of past resilience
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Resilience Much of Australia’s biodiversity is renowned for its ability to deal with massive ecosystem shocks (e.g. fire, extended periods of dry or wet, extreme weather events such as cyclones)....
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...
Pressures affecting the marine environment 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceAustralia’s marine environment is experiencing pressures from a wide range of sources that affect its habitats, communities, species and ecosystem functioning to varying degrees. With many pressures affecting the marine environment and its inhabitants at any one time, it can be...
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...
Marine regions
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Introduction Tasmania Marine Temperate East Marine South West Great Barrier Reef Marine North...
Marine environment: 2011–16 in context
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Introduction Tasmania Marine Temperate East Marine South West Great Barrier Reef East Coast...
Climate and system variability
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Pressures Tasmania Marine Temperate East Marine South West Great Barrier Reef Marine North...
Climate change
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Pressures Tasmania Marine South West Great Barrier Reef East Coast Marine South East...
Sustainability and sector management
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Effectiveness of management Tasmania Great Barrier Reef Managing for externalities Climate variability and longer-term change Australia is a...
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...
Sustained ocean monitoring
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Outlook Great Barrier Reef Responding to a changing and increasingly modified environment, especially one where directing or modifying the trajectory of change is...
