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National Land and Water Resources Audit Publications

A framework for assessing the health of coastal waters: Qld trial

While the assessment framework and indicators described in this report are for use by a range of stakeholders from community to state government, the report is specifically written for the NLWRA (as a final report on a project to trial the national set of 19 estuarine, coastal and marine resource condition indicators in Queensland). As such it contains information and data that is in excess of the needs of the intended users. The purpose of the indicators provided (more)...

A Framework for the Identification of Wetland Condition Indicators

A National Trial – South Australia

The SAWCI project has developed a process for the identification of appropriate wetland condition indicators and a pilot framework for reporting on wetland condition. This has been done in conjunction with State Departments, interstate jurisdictions, Natural Resources Management (NRM) Boards and research organisations. The project undertook the following steps: 1. Draft mapping of the extent and distribution of wetlands by the South (more)...

A national baseline of the social and institutional foundations of natural resource management programs

The Natural Heritage Ministerial Board has tasked the National Land & Water Resources Audit (the Audit) with coordinating the development of national data standards and collation of data to support reporting under National Natural Management Monitoring an

A State wide baseline for the extent and distribution of native vegetation for Western Australia

Project Report

Vegetation extent is the definition applied under the National NRM Monitoring and Evaluation Framework. In this context the term extent is applied to the monitoring of Native Vegetation Communities Integrity. The concept of native vegetation communities extent, applied here, is quite different to that of cover as defined above. As well as the plants themselves, vegetation communities and the ecosystems they represent also consist of areas of bare ground or rock (sometimes (more)...

A synthesis report on the Audit regional/catchment

This synthesis report is a review of selected projects managed by the Audit on catchment condition reporting and the report card concept. This report includes: A categorisation and review of nine projects: Australian catchment, river and estuary assessment 2002 (Audit, State and Commonwealth agencies and CRC’s) Report (more)...

About the Audit

The National Land & Water Resources Audit (the Audit) collates data and information on the status of Australia’s natural resources and contextual social and economic information. The information is used to assist in identifying Australia’s natural resource management priorities and will be used to support the evaluation of current and future natural resource management (NRM) investments. The Audit is working with all (more)...

Acid Sulfate Soil Assessment

Coastal, Inland and Minesite Conditions

In this audit, key information and results from the following three Australian acid sulfate soil (ASS) weathering environments should be brought together and assessed: coastal ASS (tidal mangrove swamps) inland ASS (non-tidal scalds driven by saline acid-sulfate discharge conditions) minesite ASS (waste rock stockpiles or (more)...

Aerial surveys of waterbirds

Assessing wetland condition

Aerial surveys were able to distinguish different waterbird communities in terms of species richness, abundance and assemblages. While they suffered measurement error, aerial surveys easily separated waterbird communities on these measures. In addition we compared aerial surveys to ground surveys. There was reasonable agreement in numbers of species and abundance, although there was a tendency for aerial surveys to underestimate the number of species seen during ground counts. Some ground (more)...

Agriculture In Australia

A summary of the National Land and Water Resources Audit's Australian Agriculture Assessment 2001