Landscape Health In Australia
A rapid assessment of the relative condition of Australia's bioregions and subregions
Gethin Morgan
Environment Australia, 2000
ISBN 0 642 37119 9
Contents
- Overview of Australia's Landscape Health
- Introduction
- Assessing Landscape Health
- Condition Attributes
- Current extent of native vegetation
- Degree of connectivity in native vegetation in the intensive use zone
- Protection of native vegetation
- Condition of native vegetation
- Extent of changed soil condition
- Degree of changed hydrological conditions
- Feral plants and animals
- At risk ecological communities and threatened species
- Trend attributes
- Current rates of clearing of native vegetation
- Trends in dryland salinity
- Inappropriate fire regimes
- Synthesis: landscape stress
- Deriving landscape stress
- Continental landscape stress
- Future directions
- Limitations of the study
- Data needs
- Futher data analysis
- Improving Australia's capacity to assess landscape health
- Potential applications
- Appendices
- References
- Acknowledgments
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