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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.

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 National Vegetation Information System framework for the Australian Native Vegetation Assessment 2001. As of 2022, the most recent update was version 6.0, in 2020.[1]

Major Vegetation Groups

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In version 6.0 there are 33 Major Vegetation Groups, including some groups representing absence of knowledge or absence of vegetation:

Major Vegetation Subgroups

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The Major Vegetation Subgroups were defined for the purposes of finer scale mapping and regional analyses.

Version 6.0 contains 85 subgroups. In version 3.1 (approximately 2007), the Major Vegetation Subgroups were:

References

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  1. ^ NVIS data products, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the environment and Water, Government of Australia (accessed 27-Oct-2022)
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