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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.
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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