Appendix 2 - Vegetation Communities and Regional Ecosystems

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Vegetation Communities and Regional
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Acknowledgments This project was fu
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5.2.6 Regional Ecosystem 3.1.7 (New
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1. Introduction Three (3)d Environm
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3. Methods 3.1 Desktop Literature R
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Plant taxonomy and distributional d
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Legend Quaternary Ugar (Stephens) I
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3.4 Field Survey Procedure The exec
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Queensland’s Vegetation Managemen
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3.6 Scale of Survey In vegetation s
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cover on both satellite formats cre
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structural variations have been dif
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Vegetation Community Description se
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Regional Ecosystem Component Vegeta
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Regional Ecosystem 3.3.14b 7fs 3.3.
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Regional Ecosystem 3.12.20 3.12.21a
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5.1.3 Land Zone 3 Difficulties with
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corestones above the surface of wha
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also forms a component of VC26b, ma
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of Heritiera littoralis, Xylocarpus
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5.2.11 Regional Ecosystem 3.2.5 Des
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Vegetation Community 14t/16c: This
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Photograph 39. Maximum development
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are similarly sparse, dominated by
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are also mapped on Badu Island wher
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community where it is mapped as com
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glauca, Rhodamnia macrocarpa, Sterc
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occurs on drainage swamps, it has b
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5.2.47 Regional Ecosystem 3.3.70 (N
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not differentiated from the broader
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That this community is marginal to
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Vegetation Community 2j: Vegetation
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Pandanus sp, contribute roughly equ
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