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Figure LAN29 Vegetation assets, states and transitions (VAST) classification of Australian vegetation
2016 MapInteract with mapDownload as pngDownload dataset Source: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, National Scale Vegetation Assets, States and Transitions 2008, used underCC BY 3.0 Figure LAN29 Vegetation assets, states and transitions (VAST...
Vegetation
2016 Report Content Forests and woodlands together represent about 16 per cent of the area of the ... in New South Wales, 15 per cent in Western Australia and 12 per cent in the Northern Territory ( ABARES 2014 ). The National ... ( DoE 2014c ). The continental extent of all forms of vegetation is summarised in Table LAN5 and mapped in Figure LAN26 ( ...
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 ...
Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Land clearing
2016 Report Content... pressure on the land environment, causing the loss and fragmentation of native vegetation. Depending on subsequent management, land clearing can also lead to ... of nutrients. In addition to the negative impact on native vegetation and soil quality, historical land clearing and other colonial ...
Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Bushfire
2016 Report Content... landscape. These particularly affect natural or seminatural vegetation, and have significant positive and negative effects on landscape and ecosystem ...
Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Invasive species
2016 Report Content... species represent one of the most potent, persistent and widespread threats to the Australian environment. They have a direct ... impact on species through predation, displacement and competition, and also have enormous detrimental effects on the health, ...
Landscape and soil
2016 Report Content... land (i.e. landforms, soils, drainage networks of streams and rivers, vegetation and other biota) is in some sort of equilibrium with the climate and ...
State and trends of vegetation
2016, 2011 Assessment summaryLand State and trends Vegetation Year...
Coastal governance and management
2016 Report Content... of government. Most management is done by local councils and state governments, and for most issues, levels of government are not coordinated (see Integrated ...
Effectiveness of management for specific pressures and drivers
2016 Report Content Earlier, we noted that the complex and dynamic relationships between drivers, pressures, ecosystems and humans call for policies and management actions that address both drivers and pressures. In many cases, ...
Executive Summary - Marine environment
2016 Executive SummaryMarine environment 2016Australia’s marine environment is the world’s third largest marine jurisdiction, at 13.86 million square kilometres. It is home to a diverse array of marine species, many of which occur nowhere else in the world. Our oceans also...
Terrestrial ecosystems and communities
2016 Report Content... based on common climate, geology, landform, native vegetation and species information. The 89 bioregions are further refined to 419 ...
Management framework
2016 Report Content Each level of government—Australian, state and territory, and local—plays a role in managing the impacts of air pollution by preventing ...
Overview of state and trends of heritage
2016 Report Content Australia’s extraordinary and diverse natural and cultural heritage generally remains in good condition, despite some deterioration and emerging challenges.
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Risk-based methods for prioritising management
2016 Report Content... assets are matched to the threats imposed by human use and, from this, the risks associated with various management decisions are ... Authority of New South Wales ( Jordan et al. 2016 ) and the Queensland Government ( Brodie 2013 ). If successful, it is expected ...
Management context
2016 Report Content... be relatively stable, despite flux in the names, structures and specific responsibilities of the government departments and agencies that oversee management. Similarly, although private and ...
Integrated coastal management frameworks
2016 Report Content... (ICZM) is the process for managing all coastal issues in a framework integrated across biota and habitats, time and space, and levels of government. It attempts to consider ...
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...
Livability: Air and water quality
2016 Report Content... a built environment: urban amenity; housing; transport; air and water quality; access to the natural environment; and heritage, social and aesthetic aspects.
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Overview of challenges to effective management
2016 Report Content... successive SoE reports have highlighted consistent problems and trends for the Australian environment.
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Resources and capacity for management
2016 Report Content... in management of the land environment includes financial and in-kind commitments by all levels of government, private landowners and businesses, philanthropic and other nongovernment organisations, Indigenous ...
Land use and management
2016 Report Content... population is concentrated along the eastern, south-eastern and south-western coastal fringes. To many living in these areas, the daily ... land use, in terms of extent, is livestock grazing of native vegetation (44.9 per cent); grazing of modified pastures accounts for another ...
Overview of resilience of the built environment
2016 Report Content Because climate-related and weather-related risks have always been present, governments and private parties have fairly well established institutional, governance and policy frameworks to build resilience in our built environment.
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Box BIO15 A common assessment method for threatened species and ecological communities
2016 Case Study Australian, state and territory governments currently maintain separate lists of threatened species , and some maintain lists of threatened ecological communities. The amount of ... in legislation.
The Australian Government, and states and territories are working together to develop a nationally consistent ...
State and trends of biodiversity 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceUnderstanding of the state and trends of the vast majority of individual species in Australia is limited. The lack of effective monitoring data for understanding state and trends, even for threatened species, is highlighted by every jurisdiction and all previous state of the...
Overview of state and trends of biodiversity
2016 Report Content... information is available for the vast majority of taxa, and few long-term monitoring programs are in place. The lack of data is pronounced for plants, amphibians and reptiles, and even more so for taxa such as freshwater fish, invertebrates ...
Policies, tools and approaches that are potentially changing the outlook
2016 Report Content The outlook described above has both positive and negative components, although the negative tends to dominate.
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Residual risks to the marine environment
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceAvoidance and mitigation measures, which are the primary strategies for managing impacts of activities on the marine environment, may not address all impacts associated with the activities. Management may be absent or only partially effective, there may be some impacts that are...
Commercial and recreational fishing
2016 Report Content... commercial wild-caught marine fisheries are highly diverse and contribute significantly to the economy. Scallops; prawns; crabs; squid; coastal fish, such as whiting and flathead; reef fish, such as coral trout; shelf and deep-water fish, such ...
State and trends of habitats and communities
2016, 2011 Assessment summaryThe title of this assessment summary has changed from 2011. State and trends of quality of habitats for species Marine environment State and trends...
