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Figure BIO34 Expenditure by the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy on climate change research programs, 2012–13 to 2015–16, plus forward estimates

2016
Biodiversity
Effectiveness of management
Graph

Expenditure by the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy on climate change research programmes (2012/13 to 2015/16) Expenditure by the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy on climate change research programmes (...

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Assessing the effectiveness of biodiversity management

2016
Biodiversity
Effectiveness of management
Report Content

2016 Biodiversity Effectiveness of management Murray Darling Although during the past few decades significant effort has been made to understand the effectiveness of biodiversity management...

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Management initiatives and investments

2016
Biodiversity
Effectiveness of management
Report Content
NRM funding provides key measures that include many practical ...
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Climate change

2016
Inland water
Risks
Report Content
... new projections focus on natural resource management ( NRM ) areas, dividing Australia into 8 regions. The rainfall ...
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Pressures affecting biodiversity

2016, 2011
Biodiversity
Pressures
Assessment summary

Biodiversity Pressures Pressures facing aquatic ecosystemsChanged hydrologyAltered fire regimesPest species and pathogensPressures from livestock productionUrban developmentPollutionGlobal climate change and climate...

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Box LAN7 Land management to reduce sediment and pollutant delivery to the Great Barrier Reef lagoon

2016
Land
State and trends
Case Study
... Burdekin and Fitzroy natural resource management ( NRM ) regions, which contribute more than 70 per cent of ... in sediment load (2008–13) came from the Burdekin NRM region, while 80 per cent of the modelled herbicide ... were achieved in the Wet Tropics and Mackay–Whitsunday NRM regions ( Waters et al. 2014 ). However, despite some ...
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Figure BIO31 Overall expenditure on biodiversity by the Australian Government, 2009–10 to 2015–16

2016
Biodiversity
Effectiveness of management
Graph

Overall expenditure on biodiversity by the Federal Government from 2009-10 to 2015-16. Overall expenditure on biodiversity by the Federal Government from 2009-10 to 2015-16. National Landcare Programme - National Heritage TrustCaring for our Country - Department...

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State and trends of inland water ecological processes and key species populations

2016, 2011
Inland water
State and trends
Assessment summary

Inland water State and trends Ecological processes and species populations South East CoastSouth West CoastNorth Western PlateauMurray DarlingNorth East CoastSouth Western PlateauTasmaniaTimor SeaLake Eyre...

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Management context

2016
Land
Effectiveness of management
Report Content

2016 Land Effectiveness of management Murray Darling Tasmania Legislative arrangements for the management of public lands continue to be relatively stable, despite flux...

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Acronyms and abbreviations 2016

2016
Biodiversity
Introduction
At a glance

ALA Atlas of Living Australia AUSRIVAS Australian River Assessment System Bd Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis CAPAD Collaborative Australian Protected Area Database EPBC Act Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 IBRA Interim...

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Effectiveness of biodiversity management

2016, 2011
Biodiversity
Effectiveness of management
Assessment summary

Biodiversity Effectiveness of management Management statusNew technologies, solutions and innovationsAssessing the effectiveness of biodiversity managementManagement initiatives and investmentsManagement capacityManagement...

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Box HER26 Using traditional fire knowledge

2016
Heritage
Effectiveness of management
Case Study
... They visited the North East Natural Resource Management (NRM) region in Victoria, talking at Landcare events, ... (in north-eastern Victoria) secured Australian Government NRM funding to undertake fire trials with traditional owners ...
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State and trends of biodiversity

2016, 2011
Biodiversity
State and trends
Assessment summary

Biodiversity State and trends Coastal and marine species and ecosystemsFreshwater species and ecosystemsTerrestrial plant and animal species: Threatened species listsTerrestrial ecosystems and communitiesGenetic and species...

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Traditional use of marine resources

2016
Marine environment
Pressures
Report Content
... of Indigenous coastal people in Australia ( Torres Strait NRM Reference Group 2005 , Dobbs 2007 , Butler et al. 2012 ...
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State and trends of groundwater resources

2016
Inland water
State and trends
Assessment summary

Inland water State and trends Groundwater resources South East CoastSouth West CoastSouth Australian GulfNorth Western PlateauMurray DarlingNorth East CoastSouth Western PlateauTasmaniaTimor Sea...

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Resources and capacity for management

2016
Land
Effectiveness of management
Report Content

2016 Land Effectiveness of management South Western Plateau Investment in management of the land environment includes financial and in-kind commitments by all levels of government, private...

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State and trends of water quality

2016, 2011
Inland water
State and trends
Assessment summary

Inland water State and trends Water qualityWater quality South East CoastSouth West CoastSouth Australian GulfNorth Western PlateauMurray DarlingNorth East CoastSouth Western PlateauTasmaniaTimor SeaLake Eyre...

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Managing biodiversity for resilience

2016
Biodiversity
Resilience
Report Content

2016 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...

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Understanding

2016
Heritage
Effectiveness of management
Report Content

2016 Heritage Effectiveness of management Murray Darling North East Coast Greater Sydney Gulf of Carpentaria...

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Terrestrial ecosystems and communities

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
Report Content

2016 Biodiversity State and trends Murray Darling Tasmania Great Barrier Reef Australian Capital Territory The Interim...

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Management status

2016
Biodiversity
Effectiveness of management
Report Content

2016 Biodiversity Effectiveness of management Murray Darling Tasmania National Reserve System and National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas Australia has...

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Climate change is a key pressure on the Australian environment

2016
Pressures
Report Content

2016 Pressures Climate change is an increasingly important and pervasive pressure on all aspects of the Australian environment. Although our climate and its high natural variability from year to year have always been a major influence on the state...

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Land use and management

2016
Land
State and trends
Report Content

2016 Land State and trends North East Coast Great Barrier Reef Australia’s population is concentrated along the eastern, south-eastern and south-western coastal fringes...

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Coastal and marine species and ecosystems

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
Report Content

2016 Biodiversity State and trends Murray Darling North East Coast Tasmania Greater Darwin Greater Hobart...

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Risks to Australia’s climate 2016

2016
Climate
Risks
At a glance

At a glanceAn understanding of the risks associated with Australia’s climate will lead to improved action plans to adapt to the changes predicted to occur. Our climate is a dynamic system; therefore, the risks need to be re-evaluated frequently. Recent climate change projections for...

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Rainfall

2016
Climate
State and trends
Report Content

2016 Climate State and trends Greater Melbourne Broadly, Australia can be divided into 2 seasonal rainfall regimes: the north and the south. The northern half of the continent typically...

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Water quality

2016
Inland water
State and trends
Report Content

2016 Inland water State and trends South East Coast South West Coast Murray Darling North East Coast Tasmania...

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Terrestrial plant and animal species: Threatened species lists

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
Report Content

2016 Biodiversity State and trends Tasmania Australian Capital Territory Threatened species lists As at December 2015, a total of 480 fauna species (terrestrial and...

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Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Land clearing

2016
Land
Pressures
Report Content

2016 Land Pressures Land clearing represents a fundamental pressure on the land environment, causing the loss and fragmentation of native vegetation. Depending on subsequent management, land clearing can also lead to a...

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Groundwater resources

2016
Inland water
State and trends
Report Content

2016 Inland water State and trends South East Coast South West Coast South Australian Gulf North Western Plateau...

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