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Title: Environmental indicators for national state of the environment reporting : estuaries and the sea / Trevor Ward, Edward Butler, Burke Hill. [Variant title:Environmental indicators, estuaries and the sea.]
Author: Butler, Edward. ; Hill, Burke. ; Australia. Dept. of Environment. ; Ward, Trevor J.
Year: c1998.
Series: Australia : state of the environment (Environmental indicator reports)
Description: iv, 80 p. ; 30 cm.
Subject: Marine ecology Australia Measurement Standards. ; Environmental monitoring Australia. ; Environmental indicators Australia. ; Estuarine ecology Australia Measurement Standards.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 75-78.
ISBN/ISSN: 0642545251;
Type: Book
Abstract: Summary -- Background -- Commonwealth state of the environment reporting -- Environmental indicators -- Conceptual and policy approaches to estuaries and the sea -- Integrated ecosystem management -- Spatial and temporal scales for monitoring indicators -- Regionalisations and spatial scales for reporting on national environmental indicators -- Key indicators for national state of the environment reporting on estuaries and the sea -- Class 1 : protected and cited species/taxa -- Class 2 : habitat extent -
A key set of 61 environmental indicators for estuaries and the sea is recommended for Australian state of the environment reporting at the national scale. Of these, 3 relate to cited species or taxa, 9 to habitat extent, 17 to habitat quality, 6 to renewable products, 2 to non-renewable resources, 5 to water or sediment quality, 17 to integrated management, and 2 to ecosystem-level processes. Monitoring strategies and approaches to interpreting and analysing each of the indicators are discussed, and possi
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