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GIS integration

Overall environmental management has to take an integrated approach. GIS and RS technology offer great potential as tools for integrated management through their ability to generate spatially explicit landscape models that can combine physical, biological and socio-economic information.

Native vegetation in the wheatbelt exists in small remnants in a matrix of agricultural land.

The current situation in the wheatbelt is an agricultural system that is in decline and  the remnant areas have a conservation value that is reducing. For successful management it is important to manage landscape as a whole.

Remnant patches on a DEM 29kb

The landscape in the wheatbelt has been managed up to now in isolation. That is remnant patches have tended to be considered on their own, but they are functionally interdependent.

It is important to manage the landscape as a whole to reduce the impacts of large scale changes to ecosystem processes. If this does not happen remnant vegetation is unlikely to survive.

Management needs to be integrated across the landscape and have complementary strategies that are favourable for both conservation and production.

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