Map showing the changes in vegetation patch size in 75 Australian vegetation communities (as defined by the National Vegetation Information System 4.1). Underpinning data is a fragmentation measure reflecting the change in proportion of vegetation patches made up of less than 5000 hectares. Data analysis provided by Ayesha Tulloch of the Australian National University - using data from the the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy (National Vegetation Information System (NVIS) Major Vegetation Subgroups (MVS) 4.1). For further information on the data analysis see:
Tulloch AIT, Barnes MD, Ringma J, Fuller RA & Watson JEM (2015). Understanding the importance of small patches of habitat for conservation. Journal of Applied Ecology 53(2):418-429 (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.12547/abstract). The data analysis by A. Tulloch is covered by a Creative Commons - Non Commercial - No Derivatives license.
The original data sourced from the Australian Government is in the public domain, licensed under CC BY Attribution 4.0. For the original data refer to: http://www.environment.gov.au/about-us/environmental-information-data/open-data
Map prepared by the Department of Environment and Energy in order to produce Figure BIO11 (b) in the Biodiversity theme of the 2016 State of the Environment Report, available at http://www.soe.environment.gov.au
The map service can be viewed at: http://soe.terria.io/#share=s-hwp3nM5vSx4kHCvesLU7kR53VMd
Downloadable spatial data also available below.
