Biodiversity

Evidence of past 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).
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Biodiversity

Managing biodiversity for resilience

The ability of ecosystems to tolerate and recover from disturbance is a phenomenon that is vitally important to understand.
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Biodiversity

Factors affecting resilience capacity

Multiple factors acting at various levels of organisation, from species to landscapes, will interact to determine resilience capacity.
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South East CoastMurray DarlingNorth East Coast
Cresswell ID, Murphy H (2016). Biodiversity: Topics. In: Australia state of the environment 2016, Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra, https://soe.environment.gov.au/theme/biodiversity/topics?framework=121, DOI 10.4226/94/58b65ac828812