Australia State of the Environment Report

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... 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

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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

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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

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... 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

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... 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 LAN6a Continental pattern of Australia’s forest cover change

2016

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... with map Download as png Download dataset Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Land clearing ...

Figure LAN6b Continental pattern of Australia’s forest cover change

2016

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... with map Download as png Download dataset Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Land clearing ...

Figure LAN4 National fire return frequency for Australia, 1988–2015

2016

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... return frequency for Australia, 1988–2015 Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Bushfire ...

Figure LAN10 Occurrences of chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) across Australia, 2013

2016

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... dendrobatidis ) across Australia, 2013 Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Invasive species ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Figure LAN8 Continental pattern of Australia’s forest cover change, 2002–06

2016

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... 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

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... vegetation remaining, by agroclimatic region Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Land clearing ...

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 ...

Vegetation

2016

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... 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 ...

Box HER31 Innovative management of local heritage—the City of Ballarat

2016

Effectiveness of management

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 ...

Pressures from livestock production

2016

Biodiversity

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... 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 ...

Pressures on the environment can interact and accumulate in various ways

2016

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... 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 ...

Pressures on Indigenous heritage

2016

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... 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 ...

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 ...

Introduction 2016

2016

Introduction

At a glance

... is perceived as one interlinked, complex cultural landscape, created and lived in by ancestors and the contemporary community. ...

Box HER15 The City of Broken Hill—a National Heritage place

2016

State and trends

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 ...

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

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2016 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 glance

At 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

Built environment

State and trends

Case Study

According 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),...

State and trends of soil acidification

2016, 2011