08/1128 - Information Response to Biodiversity Items & Ecological Impact Items - Place Designs [As Published] · 132008.1128

GLOSSARY, ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS

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Biodiversity

Connectivity

Contiguous
Cwlth
DEH

Ecological Corridor

EPA
EPBC Act
Exotic
Feral

Flora

Fragmentation

GIs

GPS

Differential GPS

MNES

NC Act

NC(W) Regulation
NRW

Qld

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The variety of all life forms, the genes they contain and the ecosystems and
ecological processes they are part of

A behaviourally determined, species specific parameter, which depends on
both landscape composition and movement ability and of animals; a
parameter that measures the processes by which sub-populations in a
landscape are interconnected

Proximally close
Commonweaith
Department of Environment and Heritage (Commonwealth)

Retained and or restored systems of linear habitat, which at a minimum
enhance the connectivity of wildlife populations and may help them
overcome the main consequences of habitat fragmentation (Wilson &
Lindenmeyer 1995); A defined area of contiguous habitat that facilitates
the dispersal of subpopulations throughout the landscape. Corridors may
be structural, being identifiable physical/spatial features of habitat, and
functional being a measure of whether a species can move between
habitat patches (Bennett 1990).

(Queensland) Environmental Protection Agency
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (C’with) 1999
An introduced species, especially one that is not of Australian origin

Wild exotic animal, usually a domesticated animal/animal species that has
reverted to its wild form

The plants of a particular region, habitat, or geological period (pl. floras or
florae)

The division of natural areas by vegetation clearance for human land use,
isolating the remnants and the species within them and limiting genetic
flow

Geographic Information System; a computer information technology which
stores, analyses and graphically displays geographic data

Global Positioning System; a portable or handheld receiver unit that
receives signals from the orbiting satellites that allows the GPS unit to
triangulate the data to determine the units exact location (typically in
latitude and longitude), elevation, speed, and time of recording

A method of correcting for electronics errors and other natural accuracy-
degrading effects. In its simplest a GPS base station is set up at a precisely
known location. The base station receiver calculates its position based on
satellite signals and compares this location to the known location. The
difference is applied to the GPS data recorded by the roving GPS receiver to
give a corrected (and more accurate) reading

Matter of National Environmental Significance
Nature Conservation Act (Qld) 1992

Nature Conservation (Wildlife) Regulation 2006
Department of Natural Resources and Water (Qld)
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Ecological Assessment Report (BCRO2) PLACE Environmental

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