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Australia's plantation log supply 2015-2059

Overview  
Australia's plantation log supply 2015-2059 report presents forecasts of sawlog and pulplog volumes available from softwood and hardwood plantations. Changes in log availability have important implications for Australia's rural economies; the size, type and geographical location of wood and paper product manufacturing industries; the national supply of wood products; Australia's trade balance; and Australia's export income. 

 This report has been prepared by ABARES under the auspices of the National Plantation Inventory--a program that has collected data and reported on plantations established primarily for wood production in Australia since 1993. Comprehensive plantation log availability forecast reports are published every five years and Australia's plantation log supply 2015-2059 is the fifth log supply report. 

 In this report, forecasts are presented for softwood and hardwood sawlog and pulplog volumes by National Plantation Inventory region, based on the combination of forecasts supplied by plantation owners and managers through a survey and ABARES modelled forecasts. For the modelled forecasts, ABARES did not account for any future changes in social, economic or environmental parameters. 

 Key Points  
• The potential log availability from Australia's commercial plantation estate is forecast to increase to an annual average of 29.7 million cubic metres in the 2015-19 period, followed by a decline to an annual average of 27.0 million cubic metres a year for the 2020-24 period. The 2015 to 2059 average total plantation log availability forecast is 10 per cent lower in this report, compared with the 2012 log supply report; the average hardwood log availability forecast is 21 per cent lower and the average softwood log availability forecast is 2 per cent lower. 
• The majority of the decline in total log availability is because the expected yield from hardwood plantations is forecast to decline as plantations of low commerciality are not replanted and some lease agreements with landholders are not renewed. 
• ABARES estimates that the total commercial plantation estate may decrease by around 80 000 to 100 000 hectares over the next 10 to 15 years as new plantation establishment will not be sufficient to offset removals of low commerciality plantations unless there are new drivers to expand or maintain the current plantation estate. 


Tags: FORESTS Plantation, Farming, NPI, National Plantation Inventory, National Plantation Inventory region, commercial plantation, hardwood, log availability, plantation, plantations, pulplog, sawlog, softwood
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Australian forest profiles: 2016

Overview  
 The Australian forest profiles series is a collection of eight fact sheets comprising an overview profile of Australia's forests and profiles of the seven main native forest types. The overview profile defines a forest and describes important forest attributes. Each of the seven forest type profiles provides a brief description of the forest type, its importance and uses, a distribution map and data. Information for all profiles is drawn from  Australia's State of the Forests Report 2013  and subsequent updates. 


Tags: Australia, FORESTS, FORESTS Natural, FORESTS Statistics, Farming, acacia, callitris, casuarina, eucalypt, forest, mangrove, melaleuca, native forest
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Australian fisheries and aquaculture statistics 2015

The  Australian fisheries and aquaculture statistics 2015  report contains a detailed analysis of fisheries product consumption, production and trade for the period 2004-05 to 2014-15. TheThe latest edition includes data on the volume and value of production from state, territory and Commonwealth commercial fisheries (both wild-catch and aquaculture) for the 2014-15 financial year. It also includes data on the volume and value of Australian fisheries trade, by destination, source and product. Profiles of Commonwealth and state/territory commercial fisheries and state/territory aquaculture, including key species, fishing methods and number of licence holders, for 2013-14 and 2014-15 are also provided. Information is also provided on the recreational sector and customary fishing by Indigenous Australians. 

Tags: Australian, FISHERIES, FISHERIES Marine, FISHERIES production, FISHERIES statistics, Farming, INDUSTRY Primary, aquaculture, commercial, commonwealth fisheries, consumption, data, employment, fisheries statistics, indigenous, production, recreational, species, state fisheries, trade, wild-catch
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Australian fisheries and aquaculture statistics 2014

The  Australian fisheries and aquaculture statistics 2014  report contains a detailed analysis of fisheries product consumption, production and trade for the period 2003-04 to 2013-14. The latest edition includes data on the volume and value of production from state, territory and Commonwealth commercial fisheries (both wild catch and aquaculture) for the 2013-14 financial year. 

 It also includes data on the volume and value of Australian fisheries trade, by destination, source and product. Profiles of Commonwealth and state/territory commercial fisheries and state/territory aquaculture, including key species, fishing methods and number of licence holders, for 2012-13 and 2013-14 are also provided. Information is also provided on the recreational sector and customary fishing by Indigenous Australians. 

Tags: Australian, Commonwealth, FISHERIES, FISHERIES Marine, FISHERIES production, FISHERIES statistics, Farming, INDUSTRY Primary, aquaculture, commercial, consumption, data, employment, fisheries, indigenous, production, recreational, species, state, statistics, trade, wild-catch
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
The ABARES bilateral trade decomposition model: Technical annex to ABARES report 'South America: an emerging competitor for Australia's beef industry'

This technical annex provides a description of the quantitative economic model used in the report South America: an emerging competitor for Australia's beef industry. The report focuses on the beef industries of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Australia. There are two objectives. The first is to assess the main drivers behind growth of beef exports from each country between 2000 and 2014. The second is to project the value of beef exports between 2014 and 2030 under scenarios reflecting hypothetical and actual changes to policies and operating environments. 

 A bilateral trade decomposition model was designed to quantify the historical drivers of beef exports from Australia and its major competitors in South America, with the aim of drawing implications for projections of future bilateral trade flows. Projections are developed for the period from 2014 to 2030 that are indicative of the prospects for both regions to expand their exports under three policy scenarios. 


Tags: AGRICULTURE Livestock, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Farming, Paraguay, South America, Uruguay, beef, competitiveness, exports, model, trade
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Australian beef: financial performance of beef farms, 2013-14 to 2015-16

Overview  

 This report presents detailed financial performance estimates for beef producing farms for 2013-14 to 2015-16, with an emphasis on 2014-15 results. Beef producing farms are defined as those Australian broadacre farm businesses that had at least 100 head of beef cattle on hand at 30 June 2015. 

 The report draws on data from the ABARES annual Australian Agricultural and Grazing Industries Survey (AAGIS). This survey has been conducted by ABARES and its predecessors since 1977-78 and provides government and industry stakeholders with important data for analysing and monitoring changes in Australia's broadacre industries. 

 Meat & Livestock Australia commissioned and funded this report. 

 Key Issues  
• Average total cash receipts for Australian beef farms increased by around 14 per cent in 2014-15 to $391 000 and by a similar percentage in the following year to around $442 000. 
• The increases in total cash receipts largely reflected higher receipts from cattle sales, which were largely a result of higher cattle prices. 
• In real terms, estimated average farm cash incomes for 2014-15 and 2015-16 are among the highest recorded since 2000-01. 
• Northern region beef farms recorded higher average farm incomes than farms in the Southern region in both 2014-15 and 2015-16. 
• Reflecting higher incomes, the average rate of return (excluding capital appreciation) for beef farms increased from -0.1 per cent in 2013-14 to 0.6 per cent in 2014-15 and is estimated to increase further in 2015-16 to around 1.9 per cent. 
• Average beef farm debt trended upwards, in real terms, between 2000-01 and 2014-15. In 2014-15 average total debt was around $460 000 a farm. Increases in average debt over the past 15 years have been largely the consequence of a rapid increase in average farm size. 
• However, increases in debt over time has largely been supported by an accompanying increase in the total capital value of beef farms. Consequently, average farm business equity ratios remained relatively steady over the period 2000-01 to 2015-16. 


Tags: Australia, Farming, Meat and Livestock Australia, agricultural commodities, beef, beef farms
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Patterns of recruitment of epifaunal species at Portsea, Victoria.

This study investigated the temporal and spatial patterns of recruitment of epifaunal species at Portsea. Recruitment panels were immersed at depths of 1 - 2.2 metres for 10 months (25/10/1975 - 11/9/1976) and 24 months (16/11/1977 - 14/11/1979) and at depths of 3 - 3.8m for 18 months (11/9/1976 - 18/5/1978). Each panel was divided into four quadrats (9 x 9cm) and the number of larvae recruits in each quadrat was recorded every 2 months using a binocular microscope. The replicate number of quadrats sampled every 2 months varied between 1 and 30 replicates. The mean number of larval recruits per quadrat for each period was calculated for each species at each depth. 

An additional treatment ('complex substratum' treatment) was added to 2 panels for 2-month periods from 13/10/1976 to 12/10/1977 to assess the effects of substratum complexity on the recruitment of epifauna. The complex substratum treatment simulated the physical structure of a barnacle and arborescent bryozoan community. On each panel there was 1 quadrat that was a complex substratum treatment and 1 quadrat that was randomly chosen from the 3 remaining to be analysed as the control. Thus, there were 2 replicate quadrats of each treatment (complex substratum and control) per 2-month period. At the completion of each period all individuals and colonies of each species were counted in each quadrat.

Availability and abundance of settling larvae varied seasonally and annually. Rates of recruitment of larvae were greatest during spring, summer and autumn. Polychaetes, barnacles, hydroids, tubicolous amphipods and bryozoans recruited in greater abundance and more consistently throughout each year than did ascidians or sponges. A greater diversity of species settled on the complex substratum treatments and the density of settlement of some species was also higher.

Tags: 10 000000, 11 000000, 20 000000, 22 000000, 27 500000, 28 401000, 35 000000, 37 465002, Aquatic Habitat, Ascidiacea, Benthic Habitat, Biosphere, Bryozoa, Cirripedia, Community Structure, Competition, Ecological Dynamics, Fish, Hydrozoa, Invertebrates, Marine Biology, Marine Invertebrates, Oceans, Penicipelta vittiger, Phyoxocephalidae, Polychaeta, Porifera, Port Phillip Bay, Portsea Pier, Predation, Species Recruitment, Succession, Zoology, artifical substrata, epifauna, pier piling, rocky substrata
Organization: College of Marine And Environmental Sciences (CMES), James Cook University (JCU)
Patterns of establishment and subsequent change in the structure of a marine epifaunal community.

Artificial substrata were used to investigate the patterns of establishment and change in the structure of a subtidal, marine epifaunal community at Portsea, Victoria from October 1975 to November 1979. Sessile invertebrate species and mobile species that significantly affected the distribution and abundance of the sessile species were the focus of the study. Experiments examining variability in recruitment and community development, species competitive ability, and the effects of predation on the epifaunal community at Portsea are outlined in the related records.

Tags: 10 000000, 11 000000, 20 000000, 22 000000, 27 500000, 28 401000, 35 000000, 37 465002, Aquatic Habitat, Ascidiacea, Benthic Habitat, Biosphere, Bryozoa, Cirripedia, Community Structure, Competition, Ecological Dynamics, Fish, Hydrozoa, Invertebrates, Marine Biology, Marine Invertebrates, Oceans, Penicipelta vittiger, Phyoxocephalidae, Polychaeta, Porifera, Port Phillip Bay, Portsea Pier, Predation, Species Recruitment, Succession, Zoology, artifical substrata, epifauna, pier piling, rocky substrata
Organization: College of Marine And Environmental Sciences (CMES), James Cook University (JCU)
Patterns of development in the epifaunal community at Portsea, Victoria.

This experiment examined the temporal changes in species composition and diversity of a developing epifaunal community on artificial substrata at Portsea. The substrata used were the bare uncaged panels and cage control panels used in the experiment described in the record 'Effects of predation by fishes on the establishment of the epifaunal community at Portsea, Victoria' (File Identifier: fd9aa0f0-e4c2-11dc-9b6b-00188b4c0af8). There were 4 replicate panels that were immersed for 2, 4 or 7 months on rigs under the Portsea Pier and 6 runs of the experiment from October 1975 to November 1977. At the conclusion of each run of the experiment the panels were fixed in 4% formalin-seawater solution. In the laboratory, the number of individuals and percent cover of colonial species on each panel were recorded.

In general, the 3 most abundant colonists (barnacle Elminius modestus, tubicolous amphipods and the colonial ascidian Diplosoma rayneri) in the first 2 months decreased as the experiments proceeded. In the following months the surfaces were invariably dominated by arborescent bryozoans, particularly Bugula dentata and Tricellaria porteli and encrusting bryozoans, particularly Celleporaria fusca. Once arborescent bryozoans exceeded a height of 15mm they frequently escaped overgrowth by most encrusting species. In all runs of the experiment there was an initial and usually rapid increase in diversity followed by a decrease.

Tags: 10 000000, 11 000000, 20 000000, 22 000000, 27 558003, 28 401000, 35 000000, 35 013002, 37 465002, Aquatic Habitat, Ascidiacea, Benthic Habitat, Biosphere, Bryozoa, Community Structure, Competition, Didemnum augusti, Ecological Dynamics, Elminius modestus, Fish, Hydrozoa, Invertebrates, Marine Biology, Marine Invertebrates, Oceans, Penicipelta vittiger, Phyoxocephalidae, Polychaeta, Porifera, Port Phillip Bay, Portsea Pier, Predation, Species Recruitment, Succession, Zoology, artifical substrata, epifauna, pier piling, rocky substrata
Organization: College of Marine And Environmental Sciences (CMES), James Cook University (JCU)
Patterns of behaviour of four shrimp species in a laboratory experiment

This study assessed the behaviour patterns of four shrimp species in a laboratory experiment that was repeated on 8 separate occasions throughout 1978. The experiment was set up in aquariums with sediment and eelgrass densities that reflected field conditions in Western Port Bay, Victoria. There were 1 to 3 replicate aquarium per run of the experiment. The shrimps species used in the experiment were the abundant species in eelgrass beds in Western Port Bay, Macrobrachium.intermedium, Pontophilus intermedius and Hippolyte caradina. Chlorotocella leptorhyncus. All shrimp species were present in each aquarium with a maximum of 4 individuals of each of the larger species (M.intermedium and P.intermedius), to avoid behavioral artifacts due to overcrowding. The behaviour activities and vertical distribution of each species relative to the substrate was assessed by making repeated observations on the instantaneous activity and location of individuals over a 4 day period. Observations were made in the night and day and were classified into 4 categories; inactive, grooming, feeding, or walking/swimming. 

P.intermedius was always inactive during the day, and remained partially buried in surface sediments until night when it emerged to move up into the eelgrass. The relative time devoted to feeding was fairly constant between the other 3 species. Levels of inactivity and grooming behaviour were higher during daylight whereas feeding and walking/swimming was more common at night.

Tags: 28 756901, 28 767018, 28 770020, 28 781018, 63 619003, 63 619004, Aquatic Habitat, Benthic Habitat, Biosphere, Chlorotocella leptorhyncus, Community Structure, Ecological Dynamics, Flowering Plants, Heterozostera tasmanica, Hippolyte caradina, Invertebrates, Macrobrachium spp., Malacostraca, Marine Biology, Marine Invertebrates, Oceans, Phillip Island, Pontophilus candidus, Population Dynamics, Predation, Rhyll, Trophic Dynamics, Vegetation, Western Port Bay, Zoology, Zostera muelleri, carid prawn, carid shrimp, carid shrimps, eelgrass, hump-backed shrimp, tidal flats
Organization: Cliffs Natural Resources
Passerine Bird Phylogenetic Endemism 0.2 Degree Grid

The Australian Natural Heritage Assessment Tool (ANHAT) is a map-supported database developed by the Department's Wildlife Heritage and Marine Division. It helps identify and prioritise areas for their natural heritage significance, focusing on biodiversity. Significance is determined based on rigorous comparisons of specific natural values, and ANHAT is an important tool to aid an evolutionary understanding of Australia's biodiversity.

ANHAT phylogenetic endemism analysis for passerine birds. This shows a phylogenetic endemism  score for each 0.2 degree grid square for passerine birds.CC - Attribution (CC BY)
This data has been licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence. More information can be found at http://www.ausgoal.gov.au/creative-commons.
Suited for use at regional, state or national level only. Data are too coarse for use at a local level

Tags: Applications, ECOLOGY_Biodiversity, FAUNA Native_Distribution, FAUNA Vertebrates_Distribution, FAUNA_Distribution
Organization: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Passerine Bird Phylogenetic Diversity 0.2 Degree Grid

The Australian Natural Heritage Assessment Tool (ANHAT) is a map-supported database developed by the Department's Wildlife Heritage and Marine Division. It helps identify and prioritise areas for their natural heritage significance, focusing on biodiversity. Significance is determined based on rigorous comparisons of specific natural values, and ANHAT is an important tool to aid an evolutionary understanding of Australia's biodiversity.

ANHAT phylogenetic diversity analysis for passerine birds. This shows a phylogenetic diversity  score for each 0.2 degree grid square for passerine birds.CC - Attribution (CC BY)
This data has been licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence. More information can be found at http://www.ausgoal.gov.au/creative-commons.
Suited for use at regional, state or national level only. Data are too coarse for use at a local level

Tags: Applications, ECOLOGY_Biodiversity, FAUNA Native_Distribution, FAUNA Vertebrates_Distribution, FAUNA_Distribution
Organization: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Parent record: Vertical coherence of currents in Jervis Bay: Summer deployment of an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP)

This record describes components of the 'Jervis Bay Baseline Studies' project conducted by the Department of Defence, CSIRO and Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA). The initial aims of the project were to obtain current and wind observations from Jervis bay over a six week period in order to detail the wind driven circulation and provide a data set for comparison with the numerical modelling work being simultaneously undertaken. However, after this initial experiment it became clear that there were significant currents in the bay that are not simply related to direct wind forcing. Therefore, alternative mechanisms for driving the flow had to be investigated, through the measurement programs and data analysis, as well as through numerical modelling. The result was a series of approximately six separate experiments aiming to define the water circulation around the bay and through the bay entrance, to gain an understanding of the processes that drive the currents, and to investigate the influence of stratification on the nature of the currents.

The fourth of these six experiments involved the  summer deployment of an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), moored in the central part of Jervis Bay (35o 05'S, 150o 44'E). An ADCP measures how fast water is moving across an entire water column. Anchored to the seafloor it can measure current speed not just at the bottom, but also at equal intervals all the way up to the surface. For this experiment, the ADCP was moored on the seabed, in a frame, with sensors looking upwards and approximately 0.5m above the seabed. 

Over the summer deployment, 13th December 1990 to 15th January 1991, the ADCP was set-up with a 15 minute sampling interval and currents were measured over 1m depth bins. Bin numbers and currents are referenced as a height above the seabed (due to the uncertainty in defining water depth because of tides and air pressure). As such Bin #1 is centered at 1.5m above the transducer face or 2.0m above the seabed. Bin #2 is centered at 3m above the seabed, Bin #3 at 4m and so on.

As this is a parent record, no data is available to download. A pdf outlining the structure and hierarchy of metadata records relating to this project is available through this record. Also available is a pdf of a published working paper documenting this experiment and the results. There is only one subsiduary records that directly relates to this parent, through which the data is provided (see hierarchical tree):
30d0a700-1fc2-11dd-a7e7-00188b4c0af8

Tags: Ocean Circulation, Oceans, Tidal Components, Tidal Currents, Tides, Water Masses, Wind-driven Circulation
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA)