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Woody vegetation decrease by TASVEG vegetation groups, Flinders, ~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

3,004

Dry eucalypt forest

2,239

Eucalypt woodland

152

Grassland

89

Heath

665

Heath/scrub complex

1

Miscellaneous forest

65

Non-eucalypt small trees

45

Non-eucalypt trees

176

Other

163

Riparian

4

Saltmarsh

12

Scrub

1,401

Wet forest

96

Wetland

136

Total

8,247

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


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