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Pressures affecting the marine environment
2016, 2011 Assessment summaryMarine environment Pressures Additional pressuresDumped wastesToxins, pesticides and herbicidesMarine debrisAnthropogenic noiseMarine vessel activityMarine renewable energy generationMarine mining and industryMarine oil and gas...
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...
Global importance of Antarctica
2016 Report Content2016 Antarctic environment Introduction Marine South West Marine South East Antarctica Although isolated from other continents, Antarctica is...
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 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...
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...
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...
6 Marine environment | 7 Outlook for the marine environment
2011 At a glanceAt a glanceAustralia's oceans and coastal marine ecosystems are overall in good condition and have experienced only gradual decline, although there are many coastal areas where conditions are already poor or very poor. Indeed, some of the world’s worst examples of impacts from pollution can...
6 Marine environment | 5 Resilience of the marine environment
2011 At a glanceAt a glanceDiversity is common to all parts of the concept of resilience—diversity at the habitat and population level, diversity of stakeholder engagement and social institutions, and diversity of management approaches supported by a range of empirical observations to verify performance....
Pressures affecting the marine environment
2011 At a glanceAt a glanceThe Australian marine environment is experiencing a broad range of pressures that affect the quality of habitats, species and environmental health. The main pressures are in coastal areas, particularly in sheltered enclosed bays, estuaries and lagoons, where removal of land-based...
State and trends of physical and chemical processes
2011 Assessment summaryThis assessment summary has changed in 2016 The new 2016 assessment summary combines ecological processes, physical...
2011 Report graph - Figure 6.4 The major ocean currents and features influencing Australia's marine environment
2011 GraphFigure 6.4 Figure 6.4 The major ocean currents and features influencing Australia's marine environment Structure of the oceans
Marine ecosystem health
2011 Report Content2011 Marine environment State and trends Marine Temperate East Marine South West Great Barrier Reef Marine North...
Structure of the oceans
2011 Report Content2011 Marine environment Introduction Tasmania East Coast Indian Ocean Australia is heavily influenced by four major ocean currents (Figure 6.4...
Biodiversity and productivity
2011 Report Content2011 Marine environment Introduction Antarctica The coastal waters of Australia are generally low in nutrients all year round and are not highly productive (exceptions to this are the shallow...
Global importance of Antarctica
2011 Report Content2011 Antarctic environment Introduction Antarctica Although isolated from other continents, Antarctica is connected to the rest of world through oceanic and atmospheric circulations. Antarctica...
