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Woody vegetation decrease by TASVEG vegetation group, King bioregion, ~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

3,125

Buttongrass and moorland

25

Dry eucalypt forest

414

Eucalypt woodland

102

Grassland

110

Heath

101

Heath/scrub complex

2,766

Miscellaneous forest

38

Non-eucalypt trees

608

Other

52

Rainforest

565

Riparian

0

Saltmarsh

7

Scrub

685

Wet forest

3,993

Wetland

17

Total

12,607

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


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