Ecological carrying capacity of terrestrial habitat

This Indicator accounts for how the generalised quality of terrestrial habitats supporting biodiversity at each location and its connection with habitat at other locations within a neighbourhood enables biological movement such as foraging, dispersal and migration. It is used to account for the carrying capacity of a landscape to support its original complement of biodiversity and ecosystems. \r\nThis indicator (3.1c) is part of a family of measures on the condition and connectivity of habitat, including its capacity to support the needs of native plants, animals and ecosystems in NSW, as a proportion relative to that in the pre-industrial era. Ecological condition and ecological carrying capacity are used to estimate the ‘state of biodiversity including undiscovered species’ and ecological condition is used to estimate ‘expected survival of all known and undiscovered species’ is one of a series of indicators on the status of biodiversity and ecological integrity in NSW developed to contribute to assessing the performance of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016. The overarching indicator framework which outlines how indicators are related and derived is presented in the “method to assess biodiversity and ecological integrity across New South Wales” (OEH, 2018).

该指标阐明了：在任一区位，支撑生物多样性的陆地生境综合质量，及其与周边区域内其他生境的连通性，如何助力觅食、扩散与迁徙等生物移动过程。本指标用于评估某一景观支撑其原有生物多样性与生态系统组成的承载能力。
本指标（3.1c）属于生境状况与连通性系列测度之一，涵盖其支撑新南威尔士州（NSW）本土动植物及生态系统需求的能力，并以相对于工业革命前的占比形式呈现。生态状况与生态承载能力可用于评估“包含未发现物种在内的生物多样性状态”，而生态状况则可用于预估“所有已知与未知物种的预期存续率”。本指标是为评估《2016年生物多样性保护法》实施成效而开发的新南威尔士州生物多样性与生态完整性状况系列指标之一。阐述指标关联与推导逻辑的总括性指标框架，已刊载于《新南威尔士州全域生物多样性与生态完整性评估方法》（OEH，2018）。