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Pest species and pathogens
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Pressures Murray Darling Tasmania Australian Capital Territory Pest plants, pest animals and pathogens have been identified by...
Pressures affecting biodiversity 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceThe pressures affecting biodiversity remain largely consistent with those identified in the 1996, 2001, 2006 and 2011 state of the environment reports. The most significant current pressures are clearing, fragmentation and declining quality of habitat; invasive species; climate...
Figure LAN2b Degree to which environmental conditions are projected to become sufficiently novel by 2050 to potentially result in the emergence of vegetation communities containing combinations of plant species highly dissimilar from any present-day ...
2016 MapInteract with mapDownload as pngDownload dataset Climate change–induced pressures
Figure LAN2a Degree to which environmental conditions are projected to become sufficiently novel by 2050 to potentially result in the emergence of vegetation communities containing combinations of plant species highly dissimilar from any present-day ...
2016 MapInteract with mapDownload as pngDownload dataset Climate change–induced pressures
Climate change–induced pressures
2016 Report Content2016 Land Pressures South East Coast Murray Darling North East Coast Tasmania Lake Eyre Our...
Outlook for biodiversity 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceIt seems unlikely, given the current overall poor status and deteriorating trends in biodiversity and the high impact of increasing pressures, that overall biodiversity outcomes will improve in the short or medium term. Our current investments in biodiversity management are not...
Box WAT6 Groundwater-dependent ecosystem risk assessment for declining groundwater levels
2016 Case Study... hydrology, water quality and/or biotic resources, and the biota in an ecosystem. Using the framework, a risk assessment identifies ...
Jurisdictional reporting on pressures
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Pressures Tasmania Greater Darwin Australian Capital Territory Each state and territory in Australia has highlighted a range of...
Land pressures - At a glance
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceWhile changing climates have shaped the Australian landscape and its vegetation, the current rate of climate change is likely to result in changes to the distribution and composition of vegetation communities. Some communities are likely to disappear, others will be transformed as...
Box BIO21 Rethinking revegetation resilience
2016 Case Study... of a drier climate, SA Water and its partners have taken novel steps to ensure the resilience of the revegetation plantings ( ...
Box ANT7 Development of a new wastewater treatment facility at Australia’s Davis Station
2016 Case Study... for potable water. The advanced treatment plant will use novel combinations of existing technologies that have been successfully tested ...
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 Study... Evolution by Harwood et al. (2016) , CSIRO reports on a novel approach to the difficulty in obtaining consistent and repeatable ...
Management framework
2016 Report Content2016 Ambient air quality Effectiveness of management Greater Sydney Each level of government—Australian, state and territory, and local—plays a role in managing the impacts of air pollution by...
Coastal land
2016 Report Content2016 Coasts Pressures Great Barrier Reef Antarctica Terrestrial pollution Terrestrial pollution occurs when solid or liquid waste is deposited on land or underground,...
Introduction 2016
2016 At a glanceAustralia’s coastal zone holds tremendous national significance. It contains many of the country’s most prized environmental and ecological assets, some of which are World Heritage listed, and accommodate habitats and species found nowhere else on Earth. The biological and landscape...
Box HER2 Ediacara Fossil Site
2016 Case Study... magnificent array of fossils of internationally significant biota, and is the most abundant, diverse and intact example of Precambrian ...
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...
Evidence of past resilience
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Resilience Much of Australia’s biodiversity is renowned for its ability to deal with massive ecosystem shocks (e.g. fire, extended periods of dry or wet, extreme weather events such as cyclones)....
Land–water interface
2016 Report Content2016 Coasts Pressures South West Coast South Australian Gulf Greater Adelaide Great Barrier Reef Greater Melbourne...
Climate change pressures affecting the land environment
2016, 2011 Assessment summaryLand Pressures Climate change–induced pressuresClimate Change Year...
Pests and invasive species
2016 Report Content2016 Inland water Pressures Tasmania Lake Eyre SoE 2011 provided information on the pressure of invasive species, including cane toads (Rhinella marina, formerly Bufo...
Risks to the coastal environment 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceDespite concerted efforts to manage pressures on the coast, there remains residual risk that impacts will still occur. Here we categorise each of the pressures identified in this report in terms of their likelihood to cause impact and the severity of that impact, once current...
Pressures affecting the land environment 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceAlthough a changing climate has shaped the Australian landscape and its vegetation, the current rate of climate change is likely to result in changes in the distribution and composition of vegetation communities. Some communities are likely to disappear, and others will be...
Outlook for inland water environments 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceClimate and pests remain the largest pressures on our inland water environments. Climate variability and climate change, and associated changes in rainfall regimes, are the primary risks to inland water environments in both the short and long term. Efforts will need to continue to...
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...
Ecosystem restoration
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Outlook Tasmania Marine ecosystems and their attributes, including species composition, ecosystem functions and resilience, are constantly changing. These changes can be...
Changing land use and management
2016 Report Content... of changes in quality and flow regimes, such as changes in biota and sediment, and nutrient concentrations in streams. As an example, an ...
Dumped wastes
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Pressures Marine North West By volume, dredging contributes the largest pressure associated with dumped wastes (not including marine debris, toxins, pesticides and...
Types of heritage
2016 Report Content2016 Heritage Introduction South Australian Gulf Murray Darling Greater Melbourne Greater Sydney Natural heritage Natural...
Integrated coastal management frameworks
2016 Report Content... managing all coastal issues in a framework integrated across biota and habitats, time and space, and levels of government. It attempts to ...
