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Landscape and soil
2016 Report Content... and often pose the greatest challenge to land managers.
Landscape and soil
Landscape and soil
Great Barrier Reef Under natural conditions, the land ...
Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Bushfire
2016 Report Content Bushfires (wildfires) are uncontrolled fire in the landscape. These particularly affect natural or seminatural vegetation, and have significant positive and negative effects on landscape and ecosystem processes. Because Australia is a continent where ... or over too large an area may kill off regeneration, reduce landscape diversity, change soil characteristics, increase erosion and reduce ...
Regional and landscape-scale pressures affecting the land environment
2016, 2011 Assessment summary Regional and landscape-scale pressures affecting the land environment
Regional and landscape-scale pressures affecting the land environment
Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Bushfire Regional and landscape-scale pressures: ...
Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Land clearing
2016 Report Content... Indigenous land management practices.
Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Land clearing
Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Land clearing
Land clearing represents a ...
Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Invasive species
2016 Report Content... and changed fire regimes (see Box LAN3 ).
Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Invasive species
Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Invasive species
South East Coast South West ...
Soil and water management is crucial for a productive landscape
2016 Key Finding Soil and water management is crucial for a productive landscape
Land management practices are improving, particularly in ...
Figure LAN6b Continental pattern of Australia’s forest cover change
2016 Map... with map Download as png Download dataset Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Land clearing ...
Figure LAN6a Continental pattern of Australia’s forest cover change
2016 Map... with map Download as png Download dataset Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Land clearing ...
Bushfire prediction and management are critical
2016 Key Finding... most of Australia, but its beneficial effects on the natural landscape can be at cost to life, property and infrastructure. A warming ...
Ongoing clearing of native vegetation threatens a range of sectors
2016 Key Finding... Clearing, including clearing of regrowth, reduces landscape resilience, as well as directly affecting current values. ...
Figure LAN4 National fire return frequency for Australia, 1988–2015
2016 Map... return frequency for Australia, 1988–2015 Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Bushfire ...
Figure LAN10 Occurrences of chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) across Australia, 2013
2016 Map... dendrobatidis
) across Australia, 2013 Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Invasive species ...
Box HER12 Rocla Quarry, Calga, New South Wales
2016 Case Study... in the project area and the wider Aboriginal cultural landscape . The court did not accept the proponent’s argument that the ... of the ‘Women’s Site’ as part of the wider cultural landscape ( NSW LEC 2015 ). The decision is a rare example where intangible ...
Box HER31 Innovative management of local heritage—the City of Ballarat
2016 Case Study... of Ballarat’s development, set within a historic urban landscape and protected using the ‘heritage overlay’ provisions of the ... to implement the Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural ...
Figure LAN8 Continental pattern of Australia’s forest cover change, 2002–06
2016 Map... of Australia’s forest cover change, 2002–06 Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Land clearing ...
Figure LAN9 2011 Percentage of Australia’s native vegetation remaining, by agroclimatic region
2016 Map... vegetation remaining, by agroclimatic region Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Land clearing ...
Vegetation
2016 Report Content... resilience in landscapes and soils, as discussed in the Landscape and soil section. Maintenance of vegetation is both a factor in and a ... resilience in landscapes and soils, as discussed in the Landscape and soil section. Maintenance of vegetation is both a factor in and a ...
Pressures from livestock production
2016 Report Content... of fragmentation and landuse in a dryland agricultural landscape of southern Australia. Landscape Ecology 23(9):1093–1105. Read CF, Duncan DH, Vesk PA & Elith J ...
Box HER11 Great Eastern Ranges Initiative
2016 Case Study... the conservation of our natural heritage, seeking to promote landscape -wide connectivity and high-priority biodiversity projects within the ... the conservation of our natural heritage, seeking to promote landscape -wide connectivity and high-priority biodiversity projects within the ...
Box HER15 The City of Broken Hill—a National Heritage place
2016 Case Study... of its mining significance and exploring the natural outback landscape values.
Source: Liz Vines, Heritage Adviser, City of Broken Hill ... of its mining significance and exploring the natural outback landscape values.
Source: Liz Vines, Heritage Adviser, City of Broken Hill ...
Pressures on the environment can interact and accumulate in various ways
2016 Report Content... Graham CA, Maron M & McAlpine CA (2012). Influence of landscape structure on invasive predators: feral cats and red foxes in the ... McGregor HW, Legge S, Jones ME & Johnson CN (2014). Landscape management of fire and grazing regimes alters the fine-scale habitat ...
Land pressures - At a glance
2016 At a glance... glance
While changing climates have shaped the Australian landscape and its vegetation, the current rate of climate change is likely to ... of remnant patches of natural vegetation. Widespread landscape-scale pressures (including invasive species and changed bushfire ...
Pressures on Indigenous heritage
2016 Report Content... than understanding that Indigenous heritage exists at a landscape scale, covering both tangible and intangible manifestations. Although in-principle support for landscape planning and assessment exists, it has not been widely resourced or ...
Box LAN3 Bees—pressures and impacts
2016 Case Study... done by wild pollinators and so is similarly dependent on landscape context; however, agricultural pollination is sometimes supplemented ... done by wild pollinators and so is similarly dependent on landscape context; however, agricultural pollination is sometimes supplemented ...
Overview of resilience of land
2016 Report Content2016 Land Resilience Resilient land should be able to recover from changes, and continue to support native vegetation and natural processes, as well as allow us to use natural resources within reasonable limits....
Australia’s heritage remains vulnerable to both natural and anthropogenic threats
2016 Key Finding... cause major impact on natural and cultural heritage at the landscape scale and for individual heritage places. Population changes give ...
Resilience of the land environment 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceAustralian landscapes have evolved with soils and vegetation in equilibrium with the climate and natural disturbance regime. Land management activities disturb that equilibrium. Although we may not see all of the ensuing changes, the subtle and slowly accumulating ones can be the...
Box BLT4 Adelaide suburban land-use change
2016 Case StudyAccording to the Australian Bureau of Statistics Land account: South Australia, experimental estimates, 2006–11 (ABS 2015d), the area of residential land in the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges area showed the largest land-use increase between 2006 and 2011 (4300 hectares),...
Factors affecting resilience capacity
2016 Report Content... (these are described in more detail in SoE 2011). At the landscape level, the amount of intact habitat, connectivity, and variation (or heterogeneity) in the landscape are important properties affecting resilience ( Oliver et al. 2015 ...
Introduction 2016
2016 At a glance... is perceived as one interlinked, complex cultural landscape, created and lived in by ancestors and the contemporary community. ...
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