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Abstract:
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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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