Final Report

Presentation of information related to the indicators for land salinity (Qld)

Two pilot areas were selected for assessment of the national indicators relating to land salinity. They will be treated individually under a common set of headings. The first sub-catchment is Black Snake Creek in South East Queensland and the second is Pocket Creek in the Fitzroy basin. The areas were selected as appropriate for this study through discussions with Department of Natural Resources and Water (NRW) staff including Soil Scientists and Land (more)...

National Indicators for Land Salinity

Victorian Component

This report provides Victoria’s response to the National Coordination Committee for Salinity information’s request for a set of recommended indicators and protocols to assist in evaluating change in land salinity. The two areas selected as subjects for the ‘Indicators for land Salinity Study’ are the two sub-catchments called Upper Gardiner Creek and Morrisons - Sheoak. These are located in the Goulburn-Broken and Corangamite catchments respectively. The (more)...

Restoring landscapes with confidence

An evaluation of the science, the methods and their on-ground application

This is the final report of project SIW004795. This report is only available electronically.

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)...

South Australia Native Vegetation Extent Baseline and Monitoring

Final Report

This report documents the work undertaken to create a 2004 baseline for native vegetation mapping in SA. The work was undertaken with funding from National Land and Water Resources Audit (NLWRA). All state’s and territories were undertaking equivalent projects to create a national baseline extent layer that will inform the status of native vegetation for Australia’s Natural Resource Management. The work also undertook to identify the (more)...

Queensland Native Vegetation Extent Baseline & Monitoring

Final Report

The project objectives from the Project Schedule (Annexure A of the contract with National Land and Water Resources Audit for project number: EPQ7 – P332) are: utilise existing vegetation extent information to report against M&E indicators; develop web service products of the above data for reporting through Australia’s Resources online; and, test use of foliage projective cover data for monitoring of (more)...

Native Vegetation Extent Baseline and Monitoring for Tasmania

Final Project Report

The Native Vegetation Extent Baseline and Monitoring for Tasmania project has successfully completed and extended the predecessor Monitoring Vegetation Extent project (MVEP). The current project has implemented statewide the change detection methodology developed and trialled in the MVEP, to generate information on vegetation change from the time of TASVEG mapping up to 2005 (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)...

Land Tenure. Final Project Report

Final Project Report

This project was initiated by the National Land and Water Resource Audit (NLWRA) with the intention of creating a Land Tenure data set with Australia wide coverage. There are several existing Tenure data sets but they are outdated or of a low resolution. The idea was to utilise the tenure data from the States and Territories in Australia and translate their data to a nationally agreed classification. To define this classification a workshop was held in Canberra in (more)...

Introducing OzCoasts

Integrated web access to key Estuarine, Coastal and Marine Indicator information and data for Natural Resource Management â€“ Final Report

The OzCoasts website (formerly called OzEstuaries) was released as part of a collaborative project with the National Land and Water Resources Audit (NLWRA). The title of the project was: Integrated web access to key Estuarine, Coastal and Marine Indicator Information and data for Natural Resource Management. The major new addition to the website was a module dedicated to NRM Reporting.

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