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Published by: National Land and Water Resources Audit C/- Land & Water Australia On behalf of the Commonwealth of Australia GPO Box 2182 Canberra ACT 2601 Telephone: (02) 6263 6035 Facsimile: (02) 6257 9518 Email: info@nlwra.gov.au Home page: www.nlwra.gov.au © Commonwealth of Australia 2001 This work is copyright. Apart from any use permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission from the Commonwealth of Australia. Disclaimer We invite all interested people, both within and outside Government, to make use of the Audit’s reports, information, its Atlas and products in whatever way meets their needs. We encourage you to discuss Audit findings with the various partners and contributors who have prepared this information. Partners and contributors are referenced in this report. The Commonwealth accepts no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of any material contained in this report and recommends that users exercise their own skill and care with respect to its use. Publication data: ‘Australian Native Vegetation Assessment 2001’ ISBN: 0 642 37128 8 Compilation: Editing and design: Maps: Cover design: Cover photo: Printing: Maria Cofinas, Colin Creighton Themeda and Angela Marshall Marco Wallenius and Themeda City Graphics Maria Cofinas Goanna Print November 2001 Printed on 50% recycled paper.
National Land & Water Resources Audit A program of the Natural Heritage Trust Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Minister for Environment and Heritage Parliament House Parliament House Canberra, ACT 2600 Canberra, ACT 2600 Dear Ministers I have pleasure in presenting to you Australian Native Vegetation Assessment 2001 – a report of the National Land and Water Resources Audit (Audit). This report details major advances made by the Audit and its partners to implement an information system for Australia’s vegetation. This system has required the development and agreement to guidelines, data protocols, access arrangements and procedures to compile and keep up to date consistent data about Australia’s vegetation. Both pre-European and present native vegetation information is summarised in this report. The vegetation information is at the best available scales and is based on over 100 data sets mapped by agencies over the last 15 years. Importantly, through the Australian Natural Resources Atlas, this information is now publicly available, providing support to a broad range of activities from regional planning to Australia wide policy making. The report demonstrates some of the applications of the National Vegetation Information System. These include providing information for setting priorities for nature conservation, catchment management initiatives and regional vegetation management planning. The National Vegetation Information System is already being used by the Australian Greenhouse Office to add further precision in the National Carbon Accounting System. As part of the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality, the native vegetation information system is being used to help identify vegetation types at risk from increases in the extent of dryland salinity. Environment Australia is using the information to assist with implementing the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cwlth) and guiding funding priorities for the Bushcare program. Much remains to be done in Australia as we address priority native vegetation management challenges and provide information to underpin natural resources decisions. Key priorities from an information perspective include: continued and targeted mapping and collection of key additional native vegetation information to complement that already compiled; implementation of a more distributed data management system so that data custodians can continually update, make accessible and provide interpretations of their part of the massive data set compiled by this initiative; and development of additional components, including readily accessible information in all States and Territories on native vegetation clearing and native vegetation condition. Level 2 Unisys Building, 91 Northbourne Avenue, Turner ACT 2612 Postal Address: GPO Box 2182, Canberra ACT 2601 Phone: (02 6257 9516 Fax: (02) 6257 9518 Email:info@nlwra.gov.au Website:http://www.nlwra.gov.au
Page 1 and 2: AUSTRALIAN NATIVE VEGETATION ASSESS
Page 3: AUSTRALIAN NATIVE VEGETATION ASSESS
Page 7 and 8: SUMMARY About the Australian Native
Page 9 and 10: Rainforest communities: most lowlan
Page 11 and 12: Vegetation change and condition. In
Page 13 and 14: Pedder Impoundment Road, Tasmania C
Page 15 and 16: 26. Number of subregions in each fr
Page 17 and 18: 31. Number of vegetation patches in
Page 19 and 20: Eucalypts in riparian zone affected
Page 21 and 22: Wilpena Pound, South Australia Info
Page 23 and 24: NATIVE VEGETATION MANAGEMENT AND TH
Page 25 and 26: Australian Natural Resources Atlas:
Page 27 and 28: The Environmental Indicators report
Page 29 and 30: NATIONAL VEGETATION INFORMATION SYS
Page 31 and 32: Table 1. National Vegetation Inform
Page 33 and 34: Figure 2. Data set and vegetation d
Page 35 and 36: Level IV: Eucalypt open woodlands/m
Page 37 and 38: Helipterum albicans, Tetratheca spp
Page 39 and 40: Reporting on Australia’s native v
Page 41 and 42: MAJOR VEGETATION GROUPS The large n
Page 43 and 44: Low open eucalypt forest (Eucalyptu
Page 45 and 46: Casuarina cristata ssp. pauper wood
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Page 49 and 50: Acacia ligulata, South Australia Ac
Page 51 and 52: Eucalytpus terminalis, Triodia base
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Figure 5. Pre-European major vegeta
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Limitations The variety of methods
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Extent of the National Vegetation I
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Table 4. Area (km 2 ) of major vege
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Figure 11. Extent of native vegetat
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Table 7. Subregions with less than
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Continental landscape stress The in
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Table 8. Area of pre-European and p
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Methods This analysis is based on a
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Fine scale detail on vegetation cha
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Figure 19. Cleared major vegetation
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Logging south of Coffs Harbour, New
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Figure 20. Percentage native vegeta
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Dust storm, ploughed mallee, Mildur
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Bioregions contain distinctive geom
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Figure 22. Present major vegetation
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Mulga Lands Most of this bioregion
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Cattle grazing, north-west New Sout
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Wheat harvest, Narromine, New South
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Darwin Coastal This bioregion has g
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Near Adelaide River, Northern Terri
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QUEENSLAND Major vegetation groups
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Mitchell Grass Downs Extending into
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Brigalow forest, near Tambo, Queens
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The majority of remnant vegetation
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Stony Plains The majority of the bi
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Heath woodland, near Keith, South A
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Vegetation change In South Australi
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Ben Lomond This bioregion is charac
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VICTORIA Major vegetation groups an
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Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus regnans) f
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Eucalyptus papuana, Red Rock Creek,
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Warren This bioregion consists of d
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Mixed mallee, Ravensthorpe, Western
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Dryland rural landscape between Gun
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Methods The analysis used one of ma
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Tailings dams at Weipa, Queensland
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Figure 35. Pre-European major veget
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Examples of nature conservation mec
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Rainbow Valley Conservation Reserve
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Barringtonia acutangula, Cooinda, K
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Table 38. Area (km 2 ) of major veg
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Divide between temperate rainforest
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1988 1997 2000 Applications 131
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Caladenia fuscata near Braidwood, N
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Methods The data incorporated into
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The spatial extent of the vegetatio
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Continuous improvement The National
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Spiranthes australis near Braidwood
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There is no Australia-wide approach
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Irrigated citrus, Griffith, New Sou
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Figure 41. National Vegetation Info
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Figure 43. Scale gaps: present vege
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Currency of spatial boundaries M
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Figure 45. Gaps in the National Veg
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Figure 47. Present National Vegetat
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Figure 48. Present classes in the i
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Figure 50. Pre-European data ranked
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VEGETATION MANAGEMENT IN AUSTRALIA
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Native Vegetation Information: cont
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data coordination to monitor and re
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STATE AND TERRITORY VEGETATION MAPP
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Low open forest. Eucalyptus paucifl
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Open forest (Eucalyptus obliqua) in
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THE NEXT PRIORITY Managing native v
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Keep River National Park, Northern
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As part of the National Action Plan
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Acacia Callitris Casuarina Melaleuc
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Macrozamia communis, Eucalyptus mac
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Acacia Callitris Casuarina Melaleuc
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Hummock Grassland Chenopod Mangrove
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TIW1 APPENDIX 3. IBRA 5 SUBREGIONS
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APPENDIX 4. RIVER BASINS OF AUSTRAL
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Livistona sp. in eucalypt open fore
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STR13Height type derivation method
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Reference 1 RF 02. CITATION Regiona
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Vegetation 1: summary description V
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Vegetation 1: stratum 1: taxon info
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10-30 30 tall n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
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Data set name Data set Pre-European
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Figure A1 Pre-European major vegeta
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Australian Capital Territory 102 Di
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Vegetation data audit The Bureau of
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APPENDIX 10. METHODS TO DERIVE MAJO
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The geographic stratification under
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Table A1 Proposed categorisation of
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Implementation issues Data custodia
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Classification system The systemati
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Stags, near Hartz Mountains, Tasman
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National coordinator A body that is
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Subregion A subdivision of a bioreg
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Calvert M., Simpson J. & Adsett K.
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Specht R.L. 1970, ‘Vegetation’,
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Weddin Mountains State Forest, New
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Metadata, National Vegetation Infor
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PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Natural Herit
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Version 1 The information contained
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Geography l Mostly confined to the
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Key values l Biodiversity of some o
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Additional species l l l l l l Euca
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Management considerations l l l l l
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Species Tropical eucalypt open fore
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Change l l l l Approximately 30% of
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VEGETATION profiles EUCALYPT LOW OP
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Change l l l Approximately 14% of p
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Major groupings Several major group
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Geography l Found across a wide ran
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Tenure Eucalypt woodlands mainly oc
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Species distribution Co-dominants i
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Change l l l l l l Approximately 15
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VEGETATION profiles CALLITRIS FORES
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Change l l l l l l l l Approximatel
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VEGETATION profiles CASUARINA FORES
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Change l l l l l l l l l Approximat
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VEGETATION profiles MELALEUCA FORES
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Change l l l l l l Approximately 3%
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VEGETATION profiles OTHER FORESTS A
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Change l l l l l Approximately 5% o
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VEGETATION profiles EUCALYPT OPEN W
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Change l l l l l l l Approximately
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VEGETATION profiles TROPICAL EUCALY
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Tenure Tropical eucalypt woodlands
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Geography l Occur mainly throughout
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VEGETATION profiles MALLEE WOODLAND
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Change l l l l l l l l Approximatel
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VEGETATION profiles LOW CLOSED FORE
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Tenure Low closed forests and close
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Geography l Dominates large areas o
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VEGETATION profiles OTHER SHRUBLAND
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Change l l l l Approximately 15% of
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Geography l Located on either infer
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Key values l Biodiversity including
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Geography l Extend from tropical to
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Management considerations l l l l F
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Geography l l l l l Occur in Wester
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VEGETATION profiles OTHER GRASSLAND
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Change l Approximately 2% of pre-Eu
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Geography l Widespread across Austr
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Key values l Rangeland production l
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Species distribution Mangroves are
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Change l l l l l Many of these comm
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National Land and Water Resources A
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