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Monitoring Overview

Soil Acidification

Soil Carbon

Wind Erosion

Water Erosion

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Monitoring Overview

The general proposition that our natural environment should be monitored is widely supported by natural resource management agencies, industry groups and community organisations.

• Monitoring data can provide feedback to assess the effectiveness of natural resource policies, determine the success of land management systems and diagnose the general health of landscapes.
  
• There is also a desire for a set of environmental statistics to match well-established economic and social indicators.
  
• The emergence of a range of large-scale environmental problems in Australia has added to the general demand for better information on trends in resource condition.

Four processes were recommended in the National Natural Resource Management Monitoring and Evaluation Framework released in 2002 by the Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council (NRMC) as having highest priority. These priority processes which potentially have a major impact on the welfare of the Australian population are wind erosion, water erosion, soil acidification, and soil organic carbon change.

ASRIS will provide baseline information for assessing the priority processes and a reporting framework for national and regional scale monitoring.

Soil Acidification

By the end of 2007 ASRIS will provide:

• Best available maps of soil pH
• Maps showing the risk of soil assets to acidification
• Status reports and results of the NLWRA soil acidification monitoring trials

Soil Carbon

By the end of 2007 ASRIS will provide:

• Best available maps of soil organic carbon
• Status reports and results of the NLWRA soil carbon monitoring trials

Wind Erosion

By the end of 2007 ASRIS will provide:

• Best available maps of erosion of soil by wind
• Status reports and results of the NLWRA wind erosion monitoring trials

Water Erosion

By the end of 2007 ASRIS will provide:

• Best available maps of erosion of soil by water
• Status reports and results of the NLWRA water erosion monitoring trials

Monitoring Downloads

Monitoring Soil Change - Principles and practices for Australian condition (5 MB)

Monitoring soil condition across Australia - Recommendations from the Expert Panels v4 (1 MB)