Australia State of the Environment Report

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 ...

Rainfall

2016

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... record in 2010 and 2011, which were the result of 2 strong La Niña events ( Figure ATM20 ). This record rainfall fell during the summer or ...

Marine environment: 2011–16 in context

2016

Introduction

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... 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

Coasts

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... 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

Introduction

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... 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

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... 2013 ). This event, driven by the occurrence of a strong La Niña phase of ENSO , superimposed on long-term increasing water temperatures ...

Changing land use and management

2016

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... across the Australian savannas and rangelands during the La Niña years following the millennium drought (see the Land report for details). ...

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 ...

Coastal and marine species and ecosystems

2016

Biodiversity

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... 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

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... 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

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... since 2011? A marine heatwave generated by the 2011 La Niña event, superimposed on overall increasing water temperatures, caused ...

State and trends in indicators of marine ecosystem health

2016, 2011

Assessment summary

... 2013 Feng, M., McPhaden, M. J., Xie, S. & Hafner, J. 2013. La NiÃ±a forces unprecedented Leeuwin Current warming in 2011. Scientific ... plankton community composition changes: an El Niño to La Niña transition around Australia. Journal of Plankton ...

State and trends of habitats and communities

2016, 2011

Assessment summary

Coastal waters

2016

Coasts

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... 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

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... 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

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... 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

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... 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

Land

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... 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

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... plankton community composition changes: an El Niño to La Niña transition around Australia. Journal of Plankton ...

Ecological processes and species populations

2016

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... 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 ...

Water management in Australia

2016

Effectiveness of management

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... of Hydrology 522:141–151. Conallin AJ, Smith BB, Thwaites LA, Walker KF & Gillanders BM (2012). Environmental water allocations in ...

Invasive species are a potent, persistent and widespread threat to Australia’s environment

2016

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... DA, Philips A, McFadden M, HinesÊHB, Scheele BC, Brannelly LA, Speare R, Versteegen S, Cashins SD & West M (2016). Priorities for ...

Livability: Natural environment

2016

Built environment

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... Singapore. Australian Planner 51(1):47–65. Aronson MF, La Sorte FA, Nilon CH, Katti M, Goddard MA, Lepczyk CA, Warren PS, ...

State and trends of Antarctic and subantarctic vertebrates

2016, 2011

Antarctic environment