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Broad Vegetation Types


There are 13 Broad Vegetation Types (BVTs) found within the Goulburn Broken region. BVTs are developed on the basis of land system type and other factors such as geology, rainfall, elevation and soil types.


The following table shows the extent of each of the 13 BVTs pre-European and at 1993.


BVT
Pre-
European Total Area^
Forested 1993

Public Land
Private Land
1993 Total Area
Conservation
Other
Total



Ha
% change
from 1750*
Ha
%*
Ha
%*

Ha
%*
Dry Foothill Forest
709,159
351,064
50
54,690
8
214,117
30
268,815
82,249
12
Moist Foothill Forest
209,315
152,285
73
20,583
10
113,909
54
134,501
17,783
8
Montane Dry Woodland
66,255
65,950
100
8,728
13
57,191
86
65,933
17
0
Montane Moist Forest
5,635
5,259
93
248
4
4,946
88
5,199
60
1
Sub-Alpine Woodland
6,445
6,368
99
1,575
24
4,793
74
6,393
0
0
Plains Grassy Woodland
848,336
17,486
2
1,314
0
5,797
1
7,112
10,374
1
Valley Grassy Woodland
16,209
1,533
9
28
0
504
3
532
1,002
6
Herb-Rich Woodland
97,287
7,303
8
114
0
3,058
3
3,171
4,131
4
Sub-Alpine Grassy Woodland
2,323
2,140
92
614
26
1,525
66
2,166
0
0
Montane Grassy Woodland
6,592
6,557
99
127
2
6,430
98
6,559
0
0
Riverine Grassy Woodland
129,293
48,440
37
7,351
6
36,188
28
43,545
4,896
4
Box Ironbark Forest
288,082
64,207
22
2,218
1
46,251
16
48,469
15,738
5
Inland Slopes Woodland
22,034
7,027
32
3,812
17
98
0
3927
3,100
14
Softwood Conifer Plantation @

18

0

16

16
1

Total Area, Ha
2,406,965
735,619

101,402

494,807

596,321
139,351


* Percentage of original BVT Remaining. DPI/DSE’s 1993 Tree 100 Layer used to calculate areas remaining. Minor discrepancies occur due to different scales of data captured (1:250 000 and 1:100 000).

^ Total area does not include all of the Landscape, such as lakes. Terminology used in this Goulburn Broken Native Vegetation Management Strategy is pre-European rather than pre-1750 to simplify communication. (Pre-1750 is terminology used on DPI/DSE Corporate Database from which the BVT information was extracted.)

@ 1987 Forest Type (1:500 000) data used.

Information derived from DPI/DSE’s Corporate database. Ref: GBCMA 1999

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