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5.1. Why is the question important?
5.2. What resources are available?
5.2a Integrated NRM
5.2b Native vegetation and water management
5.2c Native vegetation and salinity
5.2d Native vegetation and carbon sequestration
5.2e Native vegetation as a production resource
5.2f Managing for multiple objectives
5.2g Decision support systems
5.3. Where to from here?
5.3a Integrated natural resource management
5.3b Native vegetation and water management
5.3c Native vegetation and salinity
5.3d Native vegetation and carbon sequestration
5.3e Productive use of native vegetation
5.3f Managing for multiple objectives
5.3g Decision support systems
5.3c Native vegetation and salinity

Dryland salinity represents a major threat to native vegetation in southern and eastern Australia. Two research components have been described in Impacts of Salinity on Biodiversity 606, which are relevant to native vegetation:

1. Which are the areas and ecosystems at risk from salinity (where is the problem, what is its extent, where will it be in the future); and

2. What are the impacts of dryland salinity on components of terrestrial biodiversity, including impacts on threatened and near-threatened communities at the local and regional scales?

A set of conceptual models on the impact of shallow saline water tables on remnant vegetation in rural areas has been developed and put forward as hypotheses to test 607. These have been identified as a potential framework for addressing the second research component.

R&D Tip: 5.3
Follow the progress of research on carbon sequestration supported by the Australian Greenhouse Office (http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/nrm/index.html) and undertaken by CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products (http://www.ffp.csiro.au/RC-GreenhouseAndCarbon.asp) and the CRC for Greenhouse Accounting (http://www.greenhouse.crc.org.au/)