Native vegetation condition: Site to regional assessments

Andre Zerger, Philip Gibbons, Julian Seddon, Garth Warren, Mike Austin, Paul Ryan

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    Abstract

    There is an increasing emphasis in Australia on the use of vegetation condition information for regional conservation planning. The use of site-based vegetation condition assessments is a relatively mature management application with methods developed for different landscapes (e.g. rangelands and riparian) and to support a variety of natural resource management requirements (property vegetation planning or market-based instruments). On the other hand, the creation of regional-scale maps of native vegetation condition is still a developing methodology. This chapter argues that regional-scale maps of native vegetation condition are an important tool to complement site-based assessments. When combined they can provide a powerful integrated tool for regional conservation planning. Through a case study we describe a methodology for extending site-based data to maps of two vegetation condition attributes based on the BioMetric site assessment method. The case study, in the Murray Catchment in New South Wales, Australia, illustrates how an understanding of faunal response to native vegetation condition can be combined with modelled data to develop regional conservation planning maps. A spatial data aggregation approach is applied to model outcomes to address concerns about uncertainty and data confidentiality.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
    PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
    Pages139-157
    Number of pages19
    Edition9783540691679
    ISBN (Electronic)9783540691686
    ISBN (Print)9783319005140, 9783319009926, 9783319036434, 9783319081793, 9783319337821, 9783319615141, 9783319639451, 9783319714691, 9783540342373, 9783540685678, 9783540691679, 9783540713173, 9783540777991, 9783540873921, 9783540882435, 9783642032936, 9783642034411, 9783642047909, 9783642105944, 9783642122712, 9783642155369, 9783642224409, 9783642241970, 9783642297694, 9783642318320, 9783642327131, 9783642332173, 9783642343582, 9783642363788, 9783642375323
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2008

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
    Number9783540691679
    Volume0
    ISSN (Print)1863-2246
    ISSN (Electronic)1863-2351

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