Projects

tree ferns recovering after fire

A pilot Monitoring, Evaluation and Research (MER) Network

This project is trialling Australia’s first Monitoring, Evaluation and Research (MER) Network to promote national-scale learning about bushfire recovery and ecological effectiveness of post-fire interventions.

View over trees to the coast at Port Douglas

The Australian Ecosystems Models Framework

This project will develop a national framework of dynamic ecosystem models that describe ecosystem states and reference conditions.

Outback scene with vegetation growing in red sand

A Habitat Condition Assessment System for Australia

This project is aiming to provide Australia with its first consistent, repeatable and cost-efficient assessment of habitat condition for biodiversity.

Large tree in a grassland

A Knowledge Bank of Management Effectiveness for Natural Resource Management

The Knowledge Bank of Management Effectiveness will support strategic decisions about on-ground NRM activities.

Cracked mud in a dry creek bed

Recent climate-driven ecological change in Australia

This project will examine how and where climate change has influenced Australian patterns of biodiversity over the past 100 years.

Boardwalk through beachside bushland

Ecological engineering for biodiversity adaptation to climate change

This project is identifying and developing next-generation ecological engineering approaches to optimise and future-proof the value of NRM investment.

National park rainforest

Assessing the ecological representativeness of Australia’s terrestrial National Reserve System

This project examined how well the National Reserve System represents the full range of ecological environments in Australia.

Road into a farm in bushland

Assessing the economic benefits of maintaining natural capital on farms

This project will develop a methodology for assessing the impacts of biodiversity conservation activities on agriculture under a changing climate.

A national reference library of expert site condition assessments

This project is creating a library of reference, training and validation site-condition data to monitor biodiversity.

Gum trees on a hill

Building capacity in applying community-level modelling

This project builds the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment’s capacity to apply generalised dissimilarity modelling (GDM) in biodiversity assessments