Tuart Atlas
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- Last Updated on Tuesday, 31 July 2012 09:42
The Tuart Atlas has been available as a hardcopy A3 book since December 2003. Because of the detail of the maps and the inherent size of the electronic version, the Tuart Atlas has been divided into smaller, more easily downloadable sections as detailed below. You may select any section or individual map for viewing onscreen and/or printing at A4 size.
The atlas provides an up-to-date and accurate assessment of tuart's extent, overstorey density and understorey condition. It estimates that of the pre-European areas of about 111,600 hectares3 the extent of tuart remaining is 30,317 hectares. Of this remnant area, 10,864 hectares has low visible understorey disturbance and, once assessed, may warrant special conservation measures.
The report Tools for Identifying Indicative High Conservation Tuart Woodland (
484.02 Kb), that was derived from the Tuart Atlas shows low visible understorey disturbance tuart woodlands by land category, soil type, rainfall zone and the presence of threatened flora, fauna and ecological communities. These data provide a basis for the assessment of remnant tuart woodlands that may:
- be inlcuded in formal reserves;
- receive special protection management on freehold lands; or
- be designated as remnant linkages and wildlife corridors.
TUART ATLAS - TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Cover and Contents (762kB, pdf)
- 1. Foreword (117kB, pdf)
- 2. Acknowledgements (559kb, pdf)
- 3. Executive Summary (476kB, pdf)
- 4. Introduction and 5. Purpose (316kB, pdf)
- 6. Methodology (108kB, pdf)
6.1 Datasets used
6.2 Aerial photographic interpretation mapping
6.2.1 Overstorey and understorey occurrence and condition
6.2.2 Quality assurance and validation
- 7. Discussion (1,932kB, pdf)
7.1 Total extent, canopy density and understorey condition
7.2 Differences in tuart woodland mapping
7.2.1 Difference in purpose, scale and level of detail of vegetation mapping
7.2.2 Differences in interpreting remnant vegetation
- 8. References (105kB, pdf)
- 9. Plates, tables and figures
Plate 1: Example of difference in purpose and level of vegetation mapping
Plate 2: Example of difference in interpreting remnant vegetation
Tables 1-4 (248kB, pdf)
Table 1: Number of validated sites for every 10 per cent of deviation from the estimated cover
Table 2: Tuart canopy density and understorey condition classes
Table 3: Tuart extent summarised by land category and ordered by local government area
Table 4: Tuart extent summary by land category and by local government area and ranked in descending total area
Figures 1-4 (246kB, pdf)
Figure 1: Field validation of estimated tuart canopy cover
Figure 2: Field validation of estimated native understorey condition
Figure 3: Canopy density class as a percentage of total tuart area
Figure 4: Understorey condition trend relative to canopy density classes
- 10. Maps
- Atlas Map Index and Legend (954kB, pdf) - helps you select from the maps listed below and interpret them
- Distribution Map (1,312kB, pdf)
- Map 01 (910kB, pdf)
- Map 02 (1,030kB, pdf)
- Map 03 (1,027kB, pdf)
- Map 04 (1,022kB, pdf)
- Map 05 (977kB, pdf)
- Map 06 (1,066kB, pdf)
- Map 07 (1,028kB, pdf)
- Map 08 (1,396kB, pdf)
- Map 09 (1,488kB, pdf)
- Map 10 (1,217kB, pdf)
- Map 11 (1,135kB, pdf)
- Map 12 (1,309kB, pdf)
- Map 13 (1,194kB, pdf)
- Map 14 (1,162kB, pdf)
- Map 15 (1,044kB, pdf)
- Map 16 (1,363kB, pdf)
- Map 17 (1,112kB, pdf)
- Map 18 (1,102kB, pdf)
- Map 19 (1,200kB, pdf)
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