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Woody vegetation decrease by RFA vegetation community, Central Highlands, ~1994-01

Vegetation community

Woody decrease (ha)

Acacia melanoxylon forest on rises

2

Callidendrous and thamnic rainforest on fertile sites

1,042

Coastal E. amygdalina dry sclerophyll forest

36

Dry E. delegatensis forest

2,041

Dry E. nitida forest

3

Dry E. obliqua forest

10

E. amygdalina forest on dolerite

2

E. coccifera dry forest

600

E. pauciflora on Jurassic dolerite

250

E. pauciflora on sediments

59

E. regnans forest

2

E. rodwayi forest

150

E. subcrenulata forest

2

E. viminalis grassy forest

3

E. viminalis/E. ovata/E. amygdalina/E. obliqua damp sclerophyll forest

39

Inland E. tenuiramis forest

3

King Billy Pine

34

King Billy Pine with deciduous beech

9

Leptospermum sp./Melaleuca squarrosa swamp forest

7

Pencil Pine

1

Pencil Pine with deciduous beech

2

Plantation

1,088

Silver wattle (Acacia dealbata) forest

276

Tall E. delegatensis forest

4,682

Tall E. nitida forest

0

Tall E. obliqua forest

192

Thamnic rainforest on less fertile sites

813

Wet E. viminalis forest on basalt

100

Not available

3,043

Not forest

430

Total

14,920

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


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