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Fisheries Management (General) Regulation 2019
234Ecological function
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#### 234 Ecological function
234 Ecological function
> > (1) Ecological function encompasses the ecological and evolutionary processes and interactions between living and non-living components of ecosystems and ecological communities at all spatial and temporal scales.
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> > (2) Reductions in ecological function may be indicated by the following—
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> > > (a) a change to community structure,
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> > > (b) a change in species composition,
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> > > (c) the disruption of ecological processes,
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> > > (d) the invasion and establishment of exotic species,
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> > > (e) the degradation of habitat,
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> > > (f) the fragmentation of habitat,
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> > > (g) the declining abundance or distribution of constituent species within an ecological community.