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Woody vegetation decrease by TASVEG vegetation groups, Northern Slopes, ~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

17,980

Alpine

0

Buttongrass and Moorland

12

Dry eucalypt forest

1,700

Eucalypt woodland

345

Grassland

161

Heath

29

Miscellaneous forest

1,172

Non-eucalypt small trees

42

Non-eucalypt trees

1,261

Other

348

Rainforest

1,700

Riparian

23

Saltmarsh

2

Scrub

45

Wet forest

6,063

Wetland

3

Total

30,887

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


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