ANBG Friends Plant Science Group Technical Talk

Place: Theatrette, ANBG

Topic: Monitoring the condition of ecosystems across the Commonwealth national parks

Speaker: Dr Nick MacGregor, Scientist, Parks Australia.

Talk summary:  Nick will talk about the approach being taken by Parks Australia to develop a framework for monitoring and reporting on the condition of and change in ecosystems across the parks that they manage, trying to take into consideration individual priority species, broader biodiversity, habitat and structure, and the ecological processes that underpin all of those. Their current focus is on Australia's terrestrial parks (Pulu Keeling, Christmas Island, Kakadu, Uluru-Kata Tjuta, Booderee, Norfolk Island), but they hope to extend it eventually to Australia's marine parks as well.