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Native Vegetation Condition: Site to Regional Assessments

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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.

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  1. CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems ACT, Australia

    Andre Zerger, Garth Warren, Mike Austin & Paul Ryan

  2. Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, ACT, Australia

    Philip Gibbons

  3. Department of Environment and Climate Change (NSW), ACT, Australia

    Julian Seddon

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  1. Department of Primary Industries, P.O. Box 4166, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia

    Christopher Pettit (Dr.) (Dr.)

  2. RMIT University School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences, GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne VIC 3001, Australia

    William Cartwright (Prof.) (Prof.)

  3. Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne, Grattan St, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia

    Ian Bishop (Prof.) (Prof.)

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    Kim Lowell (Prof.) (Prof.)

  5. The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane 4067, Australia

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Zerger, A., Gibbons, P., Seddon, J., Warren, G., Austin, M., Ryan, P. (2008). Native Vegetation Condition: Site to Regional Assessments. In: Pettit, C., Cartwright, W., Bishop, I., Lowell, K., Pullar, D., Duncan, D. (eds) Landscape Analysis and Visualisation. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69168-6_8

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