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Climate extremes have resulted in widespread coral bleaching, habitat destruction and species mortalities in the past 5 years
2016 Key Finding... in the past 5 years
One of the strongest recorded La Niña events (2010–12), superimposed on overall increasing water ... Australian marine environments. Also associated with that La Niña event, cyclone
Yasi
, the strongest cyclone to make landfall ...
State and trends of Australia’s climate 2016
2016 , At a glance... 2-year period on record, which were associated with strong La Niña events in the tropical Pacific (La Niña events tend to result in above ...
Marine environment: 2011–16 in context
2016 Report Content... several climate extremes, including one of the strongest La Niña events on record, in 2010–12, and the strongest El Niño event since ...
Atmosphere
2016 Report Content... several brief but extreme climatic events, and a shift from La Niña (periodic cooling of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean associated ...
Pressures affecting inland water environments 2016
2016 At a glance... since 2010–11 are likely to have arisen from post–La Niña fires in savanna and rangeland areas. About 50–70 million hectares of ...
Climate: 2011–16 in context
2016 , Report Content... has experienced its hottest year (2013). Since the 2011 La Niña that helped break the millennium drought, drought has re-emerged across ...
Climate and system variability
2016 Report Content... 2013 ). This event, driven by the occurrence of a strong La Niña phase of ENSO , superimposed on long-term increasing water temperatures ...
State and trends of inland water environments 2016
2016 At a glance... mentioned previously. In 2012, after the strong 2010–12 La Niña event, many regions of the country had experienced recent high ...
Changing land use and management
2016 Report Content... across the Australian savannas and rangelands during the La Niña years following the millennium drought (see the Land report for details). ...
Coastal and marine species and ecosystems
2016 Report Content... good, although abnormally warm water during the 2011 La Niña event caused coral bleaching , and coral cover declined on some ... the Kimberley coast and at some offshore atolls. The 2011 La Niña warm-water event and flooding from storms were associated with a ...
Temperature
2016 , Report Content... Indian and Pacific oceans, such as ENSO (with El Niño and La Niña phases), affect our climate on a range of timescales. Warm temperature ...
Overview of state and trends of the marine environment
2016 Report Content... since 2011?
A marine heatwave generated by the 2011 La Niña event, superimposed on overall increasing water temperatures, caused ...
Effectiveness of marine management
2016, 2011 Assessment summary... et al. 2013 Feng M, McPhaden MJ, Xie S & Hafner J (2013). La Niña forces unprecedented Leeuwin Current warming in 2011.
Scientific ...
State and trends in indicators of marine ecosystem health
2016, 2011 Assessment summary... et al. 2013 Feng M, McPhaden MJ, Xie S & Hafner J (2013). La Niña forces unprecedented Leeuwin Current warming in 2011.
Scientific ...
State and trends of habitats and communities
2016, 2011 Assessment summary... et al. 2013 Feng M, McPhaden MJ, Xie S & Hafner J (2013). La Niña forces unprecedented Leeuwin Current warming in 2011.
Scientific ...
Pressures affecting the marine environment
2016, 2011 Assessment summary... et al. 2013 Feng M, McPhaden MJ, Xie S & Hafner J (2013). La Niña forces unprecedented Leeuwin Current warming in 2011.
Scientific ...
Coastal waters
2016 Report Content... in the mid-latitudes between Ningaloo and Jurien. The La Niña of 2011 resulted in a marine heatwave off the Western Australian coast, ...
Recent climate
2016 Report Content... in parts of Australia. Following the end of the most recent La Niña period in autumn 2012, rainfall has been very much below average for ...
Toxins, pesticides and herbicides
2016 Report Content... as 100,000 ( Menditto & Turrio-Baldassarri 1999 in Hale & La Guardia 2002 , Islam & Tanaka 2004 ); however, assessments of the toxicity ... and non-aromatic hydrocarbons ( Reijnders 1994 , Hale & La Guardia 2002 ). Because these compounds resist degradation, and can be ...
Marine mining and industry
2016 Report Content... activity, although brown coal extending seawards from the La Trobe Valley could potentially be mined Heavy minerals, including mineral ...
Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Bushfire
2016 Report Content...
40(3):347–354. Scarlett K, Daniel R, Shuttleworth LA, Roy B, Bishop TFA & Guest DI (2015). Phytophthora in the Gondwana ... DA, Philips A, McFadden M, Hines HB, Scheele BC, Brannelly LA, Speare R, Versteegen S, Cashins SD & West M (2016). Priorities for ...
State and trends of marine biodiversity: Quality of habitats and communities
2016 Report Content... plankton community composition changes: an El Niño to La Niña transition around Australia. Journal of Plankton ...
State and trends of Antarctic and subantarctic vertebrates
2016, 2011 Assessment summary... al. 2008a Southwell C, Paxton CGM, Borchers D, Boveng P & de la Mare W (2008a). Taking account of dependent species in management of the ... Southwell C, Paxton CGM, Borchers D, Boveng P, Rogers T & de la Mare WK (2008b). Uncommon or cryptic? Challenges in estimating leopard seal ...
Ecological processes and species populations
2016 Report Content... Warfe DM, Hardie SA, Uytendaal AR, Bobbi CJ & Barmuta LA (2014). The ecology of rivers with contrasting flow regimes: identifying ... river. Hydrobiologia 722(1):205–222. Vilizzi L, Thwaites LA, Smith BB, Nicol JM & Madden CP (2014). Ecological effects of common carp ...
Invasive species are a potent, persistent and widespread threat to Australia’s environment
2016 Report Content... DA, Philips A, McFadden M, Hines HB, Scheele BC, Brannelly LA, Speare R, Versteegen S, Cashins SD & West M (2016). Priorities for ...
Water management in Australia
2016 Report Content... of Hydrology 522:141–151. Conallin AJ, Smith BB, Thwaites LA, Walker KF & Gillanders BM (2012). Environmental water allocations in ...
Livability: Natural environment
2016 Report Content... Singapore. Australian Planner 51(1):47–65. Aronson MF, La Sorte FA, Nilon CH, Katti M, Goddard MA, Lepczyk CA, Warren PS, ...
Pressures affecting the Antarctic terrestrial environment
2016, 2011 Assessment summary... Crawford RJ, Crossin GT, Cuthbert RJ, Dann P, Davis LS, De La Puente S, U Ellenberg, Lynch H, Mattern T, Putz K, Seddon P, Trivelpiece W & ...
Health impacts of air pollution
2016 , Report Content... Dadvand P, Parker J, Bell ML, Bonzini M, Brauer M, Darrow LA, Gehring U, Glinianaia SV, Gouveia N, Ha E, Han Leem J, van den Hooven EH, ...
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