Data Reporting System - Theme: Biodiversity
Introduction
Biodiversity is the variety and entirety of all life forms: the different plants, animals and micro-organisms, their genes and the ecosystems of which they are a part. Biodiversity cuts across all four physical themes. Biodiversity depends on the atmosphere, the land, the coasts and oceans and inland waters for its food, air, water and habitat - but the condition of the atmosphere, the land, the coasts and oceans and inland waters is also dependent on the condition of the biodiversity inhabiting it.
The issues included in the Biodiversity theme are structured to examine the contributions of biodiversity to human life, the principal pressures on biodiversity, and the condition of biodiversity at the species, habitat and community level, and also at the broader landscape level. Societal responses to pressures or deteriorating condition are not examined as separate issues.
Issues
- Utilisation and value of biodiversity
- Pressures on biodiversity
- Land clearing
- Invasive species
- Fire
- Grazing pressure
- Changed hydrology
- Climate variability
- Pressures on marine biodiversity: Pressures on coasts and oceans arising from multiple causes
- Pressures on marine biodiversity: pressures of fishing
- Pressures on marine biodiversity: pressures of shipping
- Pressures on marine biodiversity: pressures of energy and mineral exploration and extraction
- Pressures on marine biodiversity: pressures of coastal activities
- Species, habitats and ecological communities
- Genetic diversity
- Species diversity
- Conservation status of species and ecological communities
- Government action on species and ecological communities
- Community action on species and ecological communities
- Condition of marine biodiversity: Condition of fisheries
- Condition of marine biodiversity: Condition of species, habitat and ecological communities
- Condition of marine biodiversity: Condition of marine vegetation
- Condition of freshwater biodiversity
- Condition of wetlands and riparian vegetation
- Landscapes
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