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Resilience of the land environment 2016
2016 At a glance... and vegetation in equilibrium with the climate and natural disturbance regime. Land management activities disturb that equilibrium. ... to cope with, and sometimes heal, the effects of natural disturbance events. If too much native vegetation is cleared and too much of ...
Resilience of the coastal environment 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceResilience of the coastal environment includes its resistance to change and its ability to recover once disturbed. Resistance to change is linked to the maintenance of high biodiversity, which is expected to provide greater redundancy in ecological functions. Resistance can also...
Resilience of biodiversity 2016
2016 At a glance... the speed with which they recover these processes following disturbance. This has gradually been replaced by a broader concept of ...
Pressures from livestock production
2016 Report Content... abundant in areas with low tree and litter cover, and where disturbance is minimal ( Read et al. 2008 , 2011 ). But this important element ... negative correlation between remnant size and livestock disturbance ( Duncan et al. 2008 , Duncan & Dorrough 2009 ), with negligible ...
Box HER29 Western Australian Aboriginal heritage protection
2016 Case StudyThe Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 (WA) protects all Aboriginal heritage sites in the state, whether registered or not. Consent is required for any action that will adversely affect Aboriginal heritage sites. The expert Aboriginal Cultural Material Committee considers applications...
Overview of resilience of the antarctic environment
2016 Report Content2016 Antarctic environment Resilience Antarctica Natural disturbances are part of life in Antarctic ecosystems, and the native species can generally survive shock events because they have...
Figure BIO2 Pressures affecting species listed as nationally threatened under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
2016 Graph... aquaculture 52.3 Species stresses 43.3 Human intrusions and disturbance 36.8 Climate change and severe weather 34.6 Biological resource use ...
Risks to the built environment 2016
2016 At a glance... Insignificant
Almost certain
Mega-storms, leading to disturbance or destruction of the built environment Mega-fires, leading to disturbance or destruction of the built environment Increased urban footprint, ...
Vegetation
2016 Report Content... seeds, pollen and other disseminules. In such areas, if disturbance is at levels consistent with background environmental processes and ... areas of remote Australia; however, even here, unnatural disturbance —such as bushfires at a higher frequency or intensity, or the ...
Managing biodiversity for resilience
2016 Report Content The ability of ecosystems to tolerate and recover from disturbance is a phenomenon that is vitally important to understand. Resilience ...
The ability of ecosystems to tolerate and recover from disturbance is a phenomenon that is vitally important to understand. Resilience ...
Resilience of the Antarctic environment 2016
2016 At a glance... species may never recover if the interval between disturbance events is too short for them to develop and grow into mature ...
Pressures affecting the environment
2016 At a glance... and a further 62 per cent is subject to varying degrees of disturbance. Many of the contemporary pressures on the Australian environment ...
Resilience
2016 At a glance... of the environment to withstand or recover from a shock or disturbance. Although the concept of resilience was developed and is mainly ... in terms of resisting and recovering from shocks and disturbance, including the natural variability and change of the environment ...
Approach - Atmosphere 2016
2016 Report Content2016 Atmosphere In this report, we assess the state of Australia’s atmosphere through an assessment of Australia’s climate and the effects of climate change, and ambient air quality. The approach adopted in this report follows that outlined in the...
Figure BIO27 Distribution of (a) currently listed freshwater fish, (b) species identified as potentially vulnerable, (c) river condition and (d) freshwater fish research effort across Australia
2016 MapInteract with mapDownload as pngDownload dataset Note: The scale represents the number of species of each category found in each catchment (a and b). The condition of Australian rivers (c) is adapted from Stein et al. (2002), with 1 being the most pristine and 8 the most disturbed...
Resilience of the marine environment 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceResilience can be considered to be the capacity of a system to keep functioning even when disturbed. Current understanding of the resilience of Australia’s marine environment is limited because of the vast spatial extent of Australia’s marine ecosystems, their complexity, the many...
Risks to heritage 2016
2016 At a glance... controls Resource extraction leading to destruction or disturbance of heritage values Loss of specialist heritage trade skills More ... their conservation Change of land use leading to habitat disturbance Perception of heritage as expendable Development leading to ...
Resilience of Australia’s air quality 2016
2016 , At a glance... if the system's state has been significantly affected by a disturbance. Australia’s metropolitan cities all experience episodes of poor ...
Resilience of Australia’s heritage 2016
2016 At a glance... resilience is:
… the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganise while undergoing change so as to still retain ...
Vegetation
2016 Report Content... and a further 62 per cent is subject to varying degrees of disturbance . The cumulative impacts of land uses and management practices on ...
Box LAN13 HCAS—a new way to assess continuous variation in the condition of natural habitats for terrestrial biodiversity across whole regions using remote sensing data
2016 Case StudyIn a recent article in Methods in Ecology and Evolution by Harwood et al. (2016), CSIRO reports on a novel approach to the difficulty in obtaining consistent and repeatable measurement of habitat condition for biodiversity across large areas, using remote sensing with limited...
Resilience of marine systems
2016 Report Content... are occurring. Similarly, the resilience of ecosystems to disturbance depends on the spatial scale at which both disturbance and resilience operate ( Hughes et al. 2005 ). Improving ...
Overview of effectiveness of management of the built environment
2016 Report Content2016 Built environment Effectiveness of management In April 2016, the Australian Government released the Smart Cities Plan (DPMC 2016). The plan outlines the Australian Government’s vision for cities—metropolitan and...
Pressures affecting the Antarctic environment 2016
2016 At a glance... Tourism is a major activity around the Antarctic Peninsula. Disturbance of habitat and wildlife, introduction of invasive plants and other ...
Resilience of Australia’s climate 2016
2016 , At a glanceAt a glanceOur planet is somewhat resilient to increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) levels because atmospheric CO2 is absorbed by the oceans. During recent decades, the oceans have taken up approximately 25 per cent of the annual anthropogenic CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. However, the...
Land: 2011–16 in context
2016 Report Content... DJ & Saatchi SS (2014). Remote sensing assessment of forest disturbance across complex mountainous terrain: the pattern and severity of ...
Box BIO18 Western Australian islands—safe havens for threatened species
2016 Case StudySince the 1980s, the Western Australian Department of Parks and Wildlife and its predecessors have undertaken successful black rat and feral cat eradication programs on about 150 offshore islands, making them available for native fauna translocations. These translocations have...
Box BIO12 Getting to know a whole new world of animals living underground
2016 Case Study... associated with mining developments, including removal or disturbance of geological strata supporting faunal communities, and drawdown of ... associated with mining developments, including removal or disturbance of geological strata supporting faunal communities, and drawdown of ...
Resilience of the built environment 2016
2016 At a glance... on how vulnerable built assets and community services are to disturbance, and how well management planning and processes can cope with ...
Landscape and soil
2016 Report Content... biota) is in some sort of equilibrium with the climate and disturbance factors such as bushfire. This equilibrium is disturbed by land ... biota ) is in some sort of equilibrium with the climate and disturbance factors such as bushfire. This equilibrium is disturbed by land ...
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