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2016 SoE Marine Chapter - State and Trends - Introduced species

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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The Marine chapter of the 2016 State of the Environment (SoE) report incorporates multiple expert templates developed from streams of marine data. This metadata record describes the Expert Assessment "The state and trends of non-indigenous/non-endemic species – number and abundance of introduced species". The full Expert Assessment, including figures and tables (where provided), is attached to this record. Where available, the Data Stream(s) used to generate this Expert Assessment are accessible through the "On-line Resources" section of this record.

DESCRIPTION OF ECOLOGICAL PROCESS FOR EXPERT ASSESSMENT There are over 250 introduced marine plants and animals established in Australian waters (see marine pests.gov.au). Some have hitch-hiked to Australian waters on the hulls of vessels of all types from yachts to commercial ships, or in their ballast water. Others have been introduced to support local aquaculture, with the aquarium industry another vector. Some species are listed on the National Introduced Marine Pest Information System and are assessed under the ‘Number and abundance of NIMPIS-listed species’ assessment. This assessment covers those species not currently on the list. DATA STREAM(S) USED IN EXPERT ASSESSMENT This assessment is based on peer-review papers and reports as well as information on the marine pests website: see http://www.marinepests.gov.au.

2016 SOE ASSESSMENT SUMMARY [see attached Expert Assessment for full details] • 2016 • Assessment grade: Good Assessment trend: Unclear Confidence grade: Limited evidence or limited consensus Confidence trend: Evidence or consensus too low to make an assessment Comparability: Grade and trend are comparable to the 2011 assessment • 2011 • Assessment grade: Good Assessment trend: Unclear Confidence grade: Limited evidence or limited consensus Confidence trend: Evidence or consensus too low to make an assessment

CHANGES SINCE 2011 SOE ASSESSMENT The 2016 assessment is similar to the 2011 assessment. With very little information on most species abundances and no long-term monitoring of populations with which clear trends could be determined it was considered appropriate to assign a trend of ‘unclear’.

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Title 2016 SoE Marine Chapter - State and Trends - Introduced species
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/beeca8cf-e108-4f8b-b602-4c2149882fb3
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
simon.barry@csiro.au
Reference Period 13/09/2016
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "2016 SoE Marine Chapter - State and Trends - Introduced species". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/2016-soe-marine-chapter-state-and-trends-introduced-species