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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...
State and trends of vegetation
2016, 2011 Assessment summaryLand State and trends Vegetation Year...
Amount of total deforestation per decade for each state and territory, 1972–2014
2016 Graph(a) total deforestation Amount of total deforestation per decade for each state and territory, 1972–2014 Amount of total deforestation per decade for each state and territory, 1972–2014 New South WalesNorthern TerritoryQueenslandSouth...
Amount of primary deforestation per decade for each state and territory, 1972–2014
2016 Graph(b) primary deforestation Amount of primary deforestation per decade for each state and territory, 1972–2014 Amount of primary deforestation per decade for each state and territory, 1972–2014 New South WalesNorthern TerritoryQueenslandSouth...
Figure LAN28a Percentage of total deforestation in each decade by (a) land use from 2005–06
2016 Graph(a) deforestation trends by land use Percentage of total deforestation in each decade by (a) land use (as of 2005–06) Percentage of total deforestation in each decade by (a) land use (as of 2005–06) Conservation and natural...
Figure LAN30a Extent of modification to major vegetation groups, as assessed by VAST
2016 Graph(a) extent of modification to major vegetation groups Extent of modification to major vegetation groups, as assessed by VAST Extent of modification to major vegetation groups, as assessed by VAST ResidualBareModifiedTransformedReplacedRemoved Eucalypt Open...
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 resilience of inland water
2016 Report Content2016 Inland water Resilience Murray Darling Since 2011, environmental flows (managed freshwater flows in natural water systems, designed to maintain aquatic ecosystems) have contributed to the...
Resilience of inland water environments 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceA challenge in assessing resilience of inland water environments is recognising resilience when it occurs, especially because Australian ecosystems have developed to be both resistant and resilient. We can contribute to resilience by reducing extreme and detrimental ecosystem...
Figure BIO11 (a) Total loss of extent of vegetation communities in Australia from pre-1750 extents; (b) a fragmentation measure reflecting the change in proportion of vegetation patches made up of less than 5000 hectares
2016 MapInteract with mapDownload as pngDownload dataset Source: Adapted from Tulloch et al. 2015, used under CC BY NC ND 4.0 Figure BIO11 (a) Total loss of extent of vegetation communities in Australia from pre-1750 extents; (b) a fragmentation measure reflecting the change in...
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...
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...
Terrestrial ecosystems and communities
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity State and trends Murray Darling Tasmania Great Barrier Reef Australian Capital Territory The Interim...
Freshwater species and ecosystems
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity State and trends Murray Darling Tasmania Great Barrier Reef Australian Capital Territory Lake Eyre...
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...
State and trends of the coastal environment 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceThe state and trends of the living (biotic) and nonliving (abiotic) environment in the coastal zone are the result of both historical and contemporary pressures, and our attempts to ameliorate these pressures. The state of most coastal biological components is in decline,...
Coastal land
2016 Report Content2016 Coasts State and trends North East Coast Marine Temperate East Great Barrier Reef Cocos Christmas Marine North...
Land–water interface
2016 Report Content2016 Coasts State and trends Tasmania Greater Brisbane Greater Sydney Beaches and sand dunes Like many features at the interface of the land and...
Figure LAN3 Native and exotic plants in Australia
2016 GraphNative and exotic plants in Australia Native and exotic plants in Australia Number Exotics, introduced29788 Natives17053 Exotics, weedy elsewhere8108 Exotics, naturalised3175 Natives, weedy elsewhere1824 Natives, naturalised out of range653...
Figure LAN5 Amount of deforestation (total, primary, regrowth) per decade for each state and territory, 1970–2014
2016 Graph(c) regrowth deforestation Amount of regrowth deforestation per decade for each state and territory, 1972–2014 Amount of regrowth deforestation per decade for each state and territory, 1972–2014 New South WalesNorthern TerritoryQueenslandSouth...
Figure LAN7 First-time forest conversion and reclearing in Australia, 1990–2014
2016 GraphFirst-time forest conversion and re-clearing in Australia, 1990–2014 First-time forest conversion and re-clearing in Australia, 1990–2014 First time clearing (ha)Re-clearing (ha) 1990612.2147.7 1991469.2155.6 1992420143.5 1993464174.8 1994415.1154.2...
Figure LAN28 b Percentage of total deforestation in each decade by (a) land use (as of 2005–06) and (b) land tenure (as of 1993)
2016 Graph(b) deforestation trends by land tenure Percentage of total deforestation in each decade by (b) land tenure (as of 1993) Percentage of total deforestation in each decade by (b) land tenure (as of 1993) FreeholdLeaseholdPublic 1970 to 197983.300266314.89469961....
Figure LAN30b Extent of modification of major vegetation groups, as assessed by vegetation assets, states and transitions (VAST) where (a) shows the percentage of modification; and (b) shows the extent of major vegetation groups, pre-1750
2016 Graph(b) extent of major vegetation groups, pre-1750 Extent of major vegetation groups (pre 1750) as assessed by VAST Extent of major vegetation groups (pre 1750) as assessed by VAST pre 1750 veg (M ha) Eucalypt Open Forests35.49 Eucalypt Low Open Forests1.21...
Figure LAN9 2011 Percentage of Australia’s native vegetation remaining, by agroclimatic region
2016 MapInteract with mapDownload as pngDownload dataset Note: Numbers on the map after the agroclimate letter codes indicate subcategories for each region (after Hutchinson et al. 2005). Source: Environmental Resources Information Network, Australian Government Department of the...
