Natural Capital Region indicators

Indicator groups

Natural Capital Region has seven indicator groups used for reporting the performance of a scenario. These are higher level aggregations of the 17 underlying indicators. Some indicators appear across multiple indicator groups.

Water quality

Fine sediment from hillslope erosion
Fine Sediment from streambank erosion
Fine Sediment from gully erosion
Dissolved Inorganic Nitrogen (DIN)
Microbial – Bacteria

Biodiversity

Wetland – Riverine
Wetland – swamps (Palustrine)
Wetland – Estuaries
Terrestrial – Woody vegetation

Land resilience

Fine sediment from hillslope erosion
Land resilience

First Nations

Direct engagement
On-country values

Social

Community engagement

Economic

Industry economic
Regional economic

Climate change

Carbon sequestration
Land resilience
Methane production

Indicator rationale

The indicators used in Natural Capital Region are a pragmatic representation of the things that;

are often valued in considering Natural Resource Management investment programs,
can be significantly impacted by the on-ground Actions that are typically applied, and
can be derived consistently across large spatial scales from available data.

To find a summary of the indicators used in your area, please access one of the region tables below:

QLD

Burnett Mary

South East Queensland

Channel Country

Mackay Whitsunday

Queensland Murray–Darling Basin