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Acronyms and abbreviations 2016
2016 At a glanceAcronym or abbreviation Definition 4WD four-wheel drive ENSO El Niño–Southern Oscillation EPBC Act Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 GDP gross domestic product GPS global positioning system ICOLLs intermittently closed...
Australia’s water resources
2016 Report Content2016 Inland water Introduction South East Coast Timor Sea Gulf of Carpentaria Antarctica Drainage divisions are the...
Land–water interface
2016 Report Content... and 21st centuries (1.7 ± 0.2 millimetres per year; mm/y) ( Church et al. 2013a ) than in pre-industrial times, ... since the start of the record in 1993 is 3.2 ± 0.4 mm/y ( Church et al. 2013a ). Rising sea level is a result ...
Figure ANT8 Annual average estimated cumulative ice mass loss and sea level equivalent
2016 GraphGt = gigatonne; mm = millimetreSource: Adapted from Figure 4.16 of Vaughan et al. (2013) Figure ANT8 Annual average estimated cumulative ice mass loss and sea level equivalent, 1992–2012 The physical environment: The cryosphere
State and trends of inland water environments 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceOnline availability of flow data and water resources information has increased substantially since 2011, including: various state-based data portals a national repository with flow and other data for more than 3400 sites a national set of 222 long-term, high-quality reference...
Water flows and levels
2016 Report Content2016 Inland water State and trends South East Coast South West Coast Murray Darling North East Coast Tasmania...
Water abstraction and interception
2016 Report Content2016 Inland water Risks Three factors contribute to the risk posed by increasing water abstraction and interception: the demands of a growing population increases in per-person water consumption for this population...
Health impacts of air pollution
2016 Report Content2016 Ambient air quality Introduction South East Coast Greater Melbourne The major aim of monitoring and reducing air pollution is to reduce its adverse impacts on human...
Managing biodiversity for resilience
2016 Report Content2016 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...
Resilience of inland water environments 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceA challenge in assessing resilience of inland water environments is recognising resilience when it occurs, especially because Australian ecosystems have developed to be both resistant and resilient. We can contribute to resilience by reducing extreme and detrimental ecosystem...
Ecological processes and species populations
2016 Report Content2016 Inland water State and trends South East Coast Murray Darling Tasmania Great Barrier Reef Lake Eyre...
State and trends of the Antarctic cryosphere
2016, 2011 Assessment summaryAntarctic environment State and trends The physical environment: The cryosphere Antarctica...
Outlook for the land environment 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceThe outlook for Australia’s land environment is shaped by the legacy of our former activities, the current and future pressures on the land environment, and how we respond to these pressures. The many consequences of climate change provide the greatest challenges. The challenges...
Human capital
2016 Report Content2016 Land Effectiveness of management Timor Sea East Coast Although positive developments in resourcing, evidence-based policy-making and management effectiveness are...
State and trends in indicators of marine ecosystem health
2016, 2011 Assessment summaryThis assessment summary has changed since 2011 This assessment summary combines ecological processes, physical...
Biodiversity: Threatened species
2016 Report Content2016 Coasts State and trends South West Coast North East Coast Tasmania Greater Brisbane Greater Darwin...
Biodiversity: Habitat-forming species
2016 Report Content2016 Coasts State and trends South West Coast South Australian Gulf North East Coast Tasmania Greater Darwin...
Biodiversity: Ecological processes
2016 Report Content2016 Coasts State and trends Tasmania Greater Brisbane Great Barrier Reef East Coast Connectivity Connectivity among...
State and trends of species and taxa groups
2016, 2011 Assessment summaryThis assessment summary has changed it's name since 2011 State and trends of species populations and groups Marine environment State and trends State and trends of marine biodiversity: Species Groups...
Coastal waters
2016 Report Content2016 Coasts Pressures South Australian Gulf Murray Darling North East Coast Tasmania Timor Sea...
The physical environment: The cryosphere
2016 Report Content2016 Antarctic environment State and trends Antarctica The physical environment includes both the nonliving factors that characterise an ecosystem (e.g. weather patterns, ice coverage, the...
Biodiversity: Species groups
2016 Report Content2016 Coasts State and trends South East Coast Murray Darling North East Coast Tasmania Timor Sea...
4 Inland water | References
2011 Report Content2011 Inland water 4 Inland water References 1 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Environment Directorate. OECD key environmental indicators. Paris: OECD, 2008, viewed 28 July 2011, www.oecd.org/dataoecd/20/40/37551205.pdf. 2...
7 Antarctic environment | References
2011 Report Content2011 Antarctic environment 7 Antarctic environment References 1 Cavalieri DJ, Parkinson CL. Antarctic sea ice variability and trends, 1979-2006. Journal of Geophysical Research 2008;113:C07004. 2 Australian Antarctic Division. Australia's...
8 Biodiversity | References
2011 Report Content2011 Biodiversity 8 Biodiversity References 1 Steffen W, Burbidge A, Hughes L, Kitching R, Lindenmayer D, Musgrave W, Stafford Smith M, Werner P. Australia’s biodiversity and climate change. Canberra: Australian Government Department of Climate...
5 Land | References
2011 Report Content2011 Land 5 Land References 1 Montreal Process Implementation Group. Australia’s state of the forests: five yearly report 2008. Prepared by the Montreal Process Implementation Group for Australia on behalf of the Australian, state and territory...
3 Atmosphere | References
2011 Report Content2011 Atmosphere 3 Atmosphere References 1 Seneca LA. Epistle CIV. In: Campbell R, ed. Letters from a stoic. London: Penguin, 1969. 2 Stone R. Counting the cost of London’s killer smog. Science 2002;298(5601):2106–7. 3 Harrison RM, ed. Pollution...
