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Woody vegetation decrease by TASVEG vegetation group, Ben Lomond, ~1994-01

Caption: Woody vegetation decrease identified from Landsat data was overlayed with TASVEG data to identify the broad vegetation groups where change was occurring.

Vegetation group

Woody decrease (ha)

Agricultural land

7,827

Alpine

7

Buttongrass and moorland

3

Dry eucalypt forest

3,044

Eucalypt woodland

242

Grassland

102

Heath

58

Miscellaneous forest

65

Non-eucalypt small trees

10

Non-eucalypt trees

627

Other

78

Rainforest

166

Riparian

6

Scrub

40

Wet forest

5,448

Total

17,722

Source: TASVEG; Landsat 5 and 7 data , base images dated 1993 to 2001, processing by Ross Lincolne, Space Images


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