List of Major Vegetation Groups in Australia

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This is a list of Major Vegetations Groups and Subgroups in Australia. Major Vegetation Groups and Major Vegetation Subgroups are categories used by the Department of the Environment and Energy as part of its National Vegetation Information System.

Major Vegetation Groups[]

The Major Vegetation Groups are broadly defined as representative of distinct vegetative environments; they may extend over large areas and often contain more than one vegetation association or community. They were originally defined as part of the framework for the . There have been a number of revisions since then:

There are currently 30 Major Vegetation Groups, including some groups representing absence of knowledge or absence of vegetation. The Major Vegetation Groups are:

  • Other forests and woodlands
  • Mallee woodlands and shrublands
  • Other shrublands
  • Tussock grasslands
  • Other grasslands, herblands, sedgelands and rushlands
  • Mangroves
  • Inland aquatic – freshwater, salt lakes, lagoons
  • Cleared / modified native vegetation, buildings
  • Unclassified native vegetation
  • Naturally bare – sand, rock, claypan, mudflat
  • Regrowth, modified native vegetation
  • Unknown / no data

Major Vegetation Subgroups[]

The Major Vegetation Subgroups were defined for the purposes of finer scale mapping and regional analyses. The list is currently up to Version 3.1.

The Major Vegetation Subgroups are:

References[]

  • "List of Major Vegetation Groups, Version 4.2" (PDF). . Department of the Environment and Energy, Australian Government. Retrieved 2017-06-02.
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