Marine environment

Ecosystem restoration

Marine ecosystems and their attributes, including species composition, ecosystem functions and resilience, are constantly changing.
2016
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Marine South East
Marine environment

Sustained ocean monitoring

Responding to a changing and increasingly modified environment, especially one where directing or modifying the trajectory of change is planned, requires sufficient monitoring on relevant temporal and spatial scales, and an adaptive approach to management.
2016
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Great Barrier Reef
Marine environment

Key gaps in evaluating the marine environment

This report has highlighted a number of key gaps in our current ability to assess the state of the Australian marine environment. In this section, we summarise these key gaps and identify potential avenues by which they might be addressed.
2016
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Marine environment
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Evans K, Bax NJ, Smith DC (2016). Marine environment: Topics. In: Australia state of the environment 2016, Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra, https://soe.environment.gov.au/theme/marine-environment/topics?framework=131, DOI 10.4226/94/58b657ea7c296