Issue: Contributions and pressures between the land and inland water - Condition of species at the land-inland waters interface
This is an issue under the Land theme of the Data Reporting System.
Why we need to know about this issue
The land’s vegetation provides shade and bank stability to surface waters while surface water courses provide the water for terrestrial plants and animals. Riparian vegetation is therefore crucial to condition of both terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity.
Changes in condition of species living at the interface of the land and inland waters are important because they signal changes in the pressures impacting on both land and freshwater systems.
Indicators
- LD-06 Area and proportion of land affected by dryland salinity and acidity
Extent of surface salinity is an indicator of the potential pressure of salinity either on riverbanks or in surface waters on species living at the land-freshwater interface. - IW-26 Forested streamlength
Extent of riparian vegetation is an indicator of the potential pressure of salinity either on riverbanks or in surface waters on species living at the land-freshwater interface. - IW-33 Abundance and distribution of waterbirds
Changes in waterbird abundance or distribution could be indicative of changes occurring in either terrestrial or freshwater systems. - IW-34 Examples of deterioration of condition of wetland vegetation
Changes in wetland vegetation could be indicative of changes occurring in either terrestrial or freshwater systems feeding wetlands.
Related issues
- Land - Land condition- Land cover
- Land - Land condition- Soil stability and quality
- Land - Land condition- Condition of terrestrial species and ecological communities
- Land - Land condition- Hydrology
- Land - Direct pressure of human activities on the land- Soil loss and loss of soil quality
- Land - Direct pressure of human activities on the land- Land clearing
- Land - Direct pressure of human activities on the land- Salinity
- Land - Direct pressure of human activities on the land- Species introduction and species change
- Biodiversity - Landscapes- Ecosystem diversity
- Biodiversity - Pressures on biodiversity- Land clearing
- Biodiversity - Species, habitats and ecological communities- Conservation status of species and ecological communities
- Biodiversity - Pressures on biodiversity- Grazing pressure
- Biodiversity - Pressures on biodiversity- Changed hydrology
- Land - Contributions and pressures between the land and inland water- Condition of species at the land-inland waters interface
- Inland Waters - Catchment scale influences- Hydrological condition- Surface-water availability and human use
- Inland Waters - Catchment scale influences- Hydrological condition- Ground-water availability and human use
- Inland Waters - Catchment scale influences- Hydrological condition- Ecological aspects of river flow regimes
- Inland Waters - Catchment scale influences- Hydrological condition- Connectivity - dams, weirs, regulators and levees
- Inland Waters - Catchment scale influences- Land and vegetation condition- Erosion
- Inland Waters - Catchment scale influences- Land and vegetation condition- Vegetation
- Inland Waters - Catchment scale influences- Land and vegetation condition- Nutrients and sediments - sources and loads
- Inland Waters - Habitat scale influences- Riparian vegetation
- Inland Waters - Habitat scale influences- Wetlands
- Inland Waters - Response of biota- Bacteria and algae
- Inland Waters - Response of biota- Macroinvertebrates
- Inland Waters - Response of biota- Fish
- Inland Waters - Response of biota- Frogs
- Inland Waters - Response of biota- Waterbirds
- Inland Waters - Response of biota- Wetland and floodplain communities
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