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Woody vegetation decrease by TASVEG vegetation groups, South-east, ~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

4,689

Dry eucalypt forest

3,772

Eucalypt woodland

555

Grassland

502

Heath

50

Miscellaneous forest

90

Non-eucalypt small trees

67

Non-eucalypt trees

31

Other

236

Rainforest

1

Riparian

17

Saltmarsh

8

Scrub

90

Wet forest

994

Wetland

34

Total

11,135

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


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