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Assessment and Monitoring 12 AUDITING BIODIVERSITY AT THE LANDSCAPE SCALE – A CASE STUDY FROM QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA Paul Sattler 1 Andrea Leverington 2 Sally Egan 2 , Chris Mitchell 2 and Julia Playford 2* 1) Australia biodiversity assessment, National Land and Water Resources Audit, 68 Sanctuary Drive, Mt Cotton, Qld. 4165 2) Research Coordination Unit, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service PO Box 155 Brisbane Albert Street, Qld. 4002 Keywords: biodiversity assessment, landscape conservation, threatening processes, conservation management Extended Abstract Australia has been divided into 85 bioregions within which a total of 350 subregions have been identified. These subregions represent relatively homogenous geomorphic units and often reflect historical and current land use patterns and associated threatening processes. Synopsis reports are being produced for each of these subregions to record the condition and trend of a number of biodiversity elements at a landscape, ecosystem and species scale. This is an ambitious project which will provide useful information for regional conservation planning. At the subregional landscape scale, known special values in terms of rarity, endemism, refugia and areas of high diversity (ecosystem and species richness) are being recorded. Owing to the significant role of wetlands and riparian zones for the maintenance of biodiversity, the condition, trend and key threatening processes are being particularly assessed for wetlands and for riparian zones. At the ecosystem level the first attempt is being made to comprehensively identify threatened regional ecosystems across Australia and to relate this information to threatening processes at a subregional scale. At the species level the trend in status and condition of listed threatened species is being assessed. Much of this information is being collated by drawing upon the depth of information residing with regional ecologists and resource rangers across Australia. Four broad taxonomic groups are being assessed viz. birds, mammals, eucalypts and acacias. Part of this study will consider the sub fossil record of regional mammal extinctions since European settlement. The studies will then consider trends in species distribution in conjunction with landscape modification as well as identifying centres of endemism and species richness. The condition, trend and threatening processes of each species will also be assessed. Management Options The second part of this Audit Project is to assess management options for conservation. Conservation actions under the National Strategy for the Conservation of Australia’s Biodiversity can be grouped under three principal measures viz. • reserve consolidation • off-park conservation for species and ecosystem recovery • integrated national resource management and threat abatement. Accordingly, a comprehensive gap analysis is being undertaken of the National Reserve System including both the formal IUCN Reserves 1-4 and the informal IUCN 5 & 6 Reserves and covenants. This analysis is being undertaken in relation to the three CAR criteria: Comprehensiveness, Adequacy and Representativeness. Comprehensiveness will assess the total percentage of all ecosystems sampled in reserves at a bioregional scale whereas representativeness will assess the proportion of ecosystems sampled across their subregional 49
Assessment, Conservation and Sustainable Use of Forest Biodiversity occurrence. Bioregions and subregions will then be prioritized in terms of these CAR criteria together with an identification of ecosystem priorities for reserve consolidation. The standard of reserve management is also being ranked in each bioregion across Australia. Priority threatened species or species groups are to be identified for recovery planning together an identification of the principal recovery actions required. Recovery actions and locations for identified threatened ecosystems are also being considered. Biodiversity Strategy Case Studies Detailed biodiversity strategy case studies are being developed. These case studies will assess the condition of biodiversity at a finer scale and the management options required to address biodiversity decline. This will involve consideration of the management options and resource implications to implement conservation measures over the short and medium terms. It is proposed that these case studies provide indicative examples of the resource commitment required for biodiversity conservation across similar subregions throughout Australia. In summary the proposed outputs of this project will include: (i) Assessment of regional conservation priorities on a subregional and bioregional basis. (ii) Broad assessment of landscape/ecosystem/species priorities for conservation. (iii) Identification of the range of conservation measures required to conserve biodiversity in each subregion/bioregion in terms of reserve consolidation, off-park conservation and integrated NRM strategies. (iv) Completion of 14 indicative biodiversity strategy case studies to identify the range of actions required and the associated resource implications to conserve biodiversity across a range of environments. (v) Extrapolation of case studies across similar subregions to identify broad management and resource implications. (vi) Development of a distributed database in each jurisdiction on biodiversity and management needs at the regional scale. 50
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