GLOSSARY OF TERMS BACK ON TRACK - A prioritisation of SEQ region fauna and flora species for recovery actions and threat abatement. BIODIVERSITY (BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY) - The different communities, native plants, animals and micro-organisms, the genes they contain and the ecosystems they form. BUSHLAND - Areas of relatively mature native vegetation remaining in the landscape. Could be preeuropean or mature regrowth. This includes remnant and regrowth vegetation. CATCHMENT - The entire geographic area drained by a river and its tributaries. CLIMATE CHANGE/FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE - A range of changes to local climate over the next 70 years based on the current unprecedented rise in CO2 in the atmosphere. Such a drastic change is forecast to bring on an accelerated greenhouse effect affecting the whole world climate. CONSERVATION - The retention of current levels of biodiversity. DISTURBANCE - Accelerated change caused by human activity or extreme natural events. ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY - is a balance that integrates: (a) Protection of ecological processes and natural systems at local, regional, State and wider levels; and (b) economic development; and (c) maintenance of the cultural, economic, physical and social wellbeing of people and communities. (Queensland Government, 2009) ECOSYSTEM - A community of organisms interacting with one another and their environment. ECOSYSTEM SERVICES - Services provided by functioning ecosystems that are essential to human survival (e.g. provision of clean air and water).
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