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Woody vegetation decrease by TASVEG vegetation group, Northern Midlands, ~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

3,305

Dry eucalypt forest

1,166

Eucalypt woodland

399

Grassland

272

Miscellaneous forest

83

Non-eucalypt small trees

65

Non-eucalypt trees

4

Other

53

Riparian

19

Saltmarsh

21

Scrub

0

Wet forest

82

Wetland

10

Total

5,478

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


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