Monitoring soil condition across Australia

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This report identifies a range of issues related to the local and broad scale monitoring of soil condition across Australia.
Four priority processes which potentially have a major impact on the welfare of all Australians are wind erosion, water erosion, soil acidification and soil carbon change. These processes are difficult to monitor because either they progress very slowly or occur as irregular catastrophic events.

In mid-2006 the National Land & Water Resources Audit, via the National Coordinating Committee on Soil and Terrain, convened four expert panels to advise it on how each of these four processes might best be monitored both locally for project management and accountability purposes, and at a broader scale for reporting on the condition of our national resource base. This summary gives the expert panels’ most important findings.