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.
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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
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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.
