Environmental impacts of management activities
These are the potential impacts or effects on the natural environment of management activities. Not all impacts will occur - which impacts do occur depends on your specific situation. If a risk assessment reveals that an environmental impact is evident or likely to occur on your property, you may want to consider setting a management goal to minimise the effects. Indicators for monitoring these impacts and your management actions are provided in this guide.
Atmosphere
Pest animals
Soil
- Changed deep drainage
- Increased plant available water
- Increased soil acidity
- Increased soil akalinity
- Increased soil compaction
- Increased soil erosion
- Increased soil organic matter
- Increased soil salinity
- Increased soil sodicity
- Increased soil waterlogging
- Reduced soil erosion
- Reduced soil compaction
- Soil nutrient build up
- Soil nutrient loss
- Soil organic matter loss
- Soil organism loss
- Soil structural decline
Vegetation
- Increased canopy cover
- Increased deep-rooted perennials trees and shrubs
- Increased ground cover
- Increased habitat connectivity
- Increased habitat fragmentation
- Increased invasion of environmental weeds
- Increased invasion of production system weeds
- Increased riparian vegetation
- Increased vegetation growth
- Loss of deep-rooted perennial trees and shrubs
- Maintained canopy cover
- Maintained deep-rooted perennial trees and shrubs
- Maintained ground cover
- Maintained habitat connectivity
- Maintained riparian vegetation
- Reduced canopy cover
- Reduced ground cover
- Reduced invasion of environmental weeds
- Reduced invasion of production system weeds
- Reduced riparian vegetation
Water
- Altered seasonal stream flows
- Altered water temperature
- Barriers to fish passage
- Increased water chemical contamination
- Increased water faecal contamination
- Increased water nutrient concentrations
- Increased water sediment load
- Lowered watertable
- Reduced stream flow
- Reduced water chemical contamination
- Reduced water faecal contamination
- Reduced water nutrient load
- Reduced water sediment load
- Streambank and bed degradation
- Streambank and bed protection or restoration
Last updated: 07 September 2010