| Description |
vii, 104 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 1.1. Australia's marine biodiversity -- 1.2. The role of bioregionalisation -- 1.2.1. A national representative system of marine protected areas -- 1.2.2. Marine ecosystem management -- 1.3. IMCRA -- 2. History and process of IMCRA -- 2.1. CONCOM and AClUCN regionalisations -- 2.2. Taskforce on marine protected areas -- 2.3. Conceptual framework and limitations of the current knowledge base -- 2.3.1. Hierarchicalstructure -- 2.3.2. Physical versus biological attributes (surrogates) -- 2.3.3. Land-sea (coast) -- 2.3.4. Shallow versus deep waters -- 2.4. History and processes used to develop IMCRA -- 2.4.1. Regionalisations developed by the inshore waters working group -- 2.4.2. Regionalisations developed by the offshore waters working group -- 2.4.3. Integration of regionalisation products -- 3. IMCRA -- 3.1. Meso-scale regions -- 3.2 Provinces -- 3.2.1. Demersal provinces and biotones regionalisation -- 3.2.2. Pelagic provinces and biotones regionalisation -- 3.3. Relationships between IMCRA meso-scale regions and provincial regionalisation -- 4. Uses of IMCRA -- 4.1. Assumptions and caveats -- 4.2. Terms and conditions of use -- 4.3. Responsibilities -- 4.3.1. Custodianship -- 5. Towards biodiversity planning and management -- 5.1. IMCRA as a tool -- 5.1.1. Data required -- 5.1.2. Gaps -- 5.1.3. Planning a national representative system of marine protected areas -- 5.1.4. Contribution towards integrated management -- 5.1.5. The next level down from meso-scale regions -- 5.1.6. IMCRA and Australia's external territories -- 5.2. Future developments of IMCRA. to |
| Summary |
This report documents the development of IMCRA and discusses how it may be used as a regional planning framework for conservation and sustainable resource use in coastal and marine environments. Several caveats and conditions are presented to assist users identify appropriate uses. IMCRA has been developed through the collaborative efforts of State, Northern Territory and Commonwealth marine management and research agencies. Work began in 1992 with the Commonwealth Government providing support r the development of a range of biogeographic projects in the States and Northern Territory. In 1995 work began on the development of regionalisation projects for Commonwealth waters. Two technical working groups were established to develop the required regionalisations. The inshore waters working group comprised Northern Territory and State marine management and research agencies and the Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia. The offshore waters working group was known as the Commonwealth Technical Consortium, and comprised relevant Commonwealth research agencies. To ensure information exchange and consistency of approaches between the two working groups, representatives from the two groups participated in meetings of both working groups. Progress reports from these two working groups presented to the Task Force on Marine Protected Areas which, in turn, provided reports to the ANZECC Standing Committee on, Conservation (SCC). IMCRA was developed in three stages: a meso-scale regionalisation was developed by the inshore waters working group, which generally extends from the coastline to the limit of the state territorial waters; various provincial to meso-scale regionalisation products were developed by the offshore waters working group, which generally extended to the limit of the Australian Exclusive Economic Zone (or EEZ); and a synthesis of the regionalisations developed by the inshore and offshore waters working groups into several integrated biogeographic region alis ations at different scales. IMCRA provides the first layer in a broad planning framework in which more detailed information on ecosystems must be used to assist decision-making within a region. Additional work will allow the refinement of IMCRA- Furthermore, the use of IMCRA as a planning framework for the development of the National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas will require additional information on conservation planning attributes for each region.importance of |
| Analysis |
Biodiversity |
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Biogeography |
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Coasts |
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Ecosystems |
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Federal issue |
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IMCRA classification |
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Regional administration |
| Notes |
"ANZECC" --Cover |
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"June 1998" |
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"Version 3.3" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographic references |
| Notes |
Also issued electronically via World Wide Web in PDF format |
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System requirements: Internet connectivity, World Wide Web browser and Adobe Acrobat reader |
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Commonwealth of Australia 1998 |
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Biogeography -- Australia.
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Biotic communities -- Australia -- Classification.
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Coastal ecology -- Australia.
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Coastal zone management -- Australia.
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Coasts -- Australia.
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Conservation of natural resources -- Australia.
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Marine ecology -- Australia.
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Marine parks and reserves -- Australia.
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| Author |
Cresswell, I. D. (Ian D.)
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Thackway, Richard.
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Australia. Environment Australia.
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Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council.
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Interim Marine and Coastal Regionalisation for Australia Technical Group
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| LC no. |
00001413 |
| ISBN |
0642545456 |
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