Abstract
Studies of wetlands in Australia, as in other countries, have taken a wide variety of approaches to defining, surveying and classifying these environments. Past and current approaches in Australia are reviewed for each of the States and Territories which provide the context for much of the natural resource investigation in the country. While there are obvious advantages of national, and perhaps international, agreement on definition and types of wetlands, a variety of approaches to inventory and classification will always be necessary for particular purposes. More fundamental than general agreement on approaches is the need for wetland scientists and managers to maximise the accuracy of survey information, to test the assumptions involved in the use of classifications, and to ensure that the classifications they use are the most appropriate for their purposes. The issue of a global wetland classification scheme is discussed on the basis of a representative range of views by Australian wetland workers.
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Pressey, R.L., Adam, P. (1995). A review of wetland inventory and classification in Australia. In: Finlayson, C.M., van der Valk, A.G. (eds) Classification and Inventory of the World’s Wetlands. Advances in Vegetation Science, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0427-2_8
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