Mvg 15 Low Closed Forests and Tall Closed Shrublands draft

Tenure

New South Wales:	protected areas, leasehold land and freehold land
Northern Territory:
Queensland:	protected areas, state forests, leasehold land, isolated areas on freehold land
South Australia
Tasmania:	protected areas, freehold land, state forests and other crown land
Victoria:	protected areas, state forests and isolated areas on freehold land
Western Australia:	some leasehold land, protected areas, other crown land and isolated fragments on freehold land

Key values

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  Biodiversity including a variety of species and communities.
  
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  Ecotourism, including bushwalking and landscape features.
  
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  Cultural and heritage values.
  
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  Often support diverse faunal communities and provide food and shelter for fauna that are often both reliant on this vegetation group and on the surrounding landscapes.
  

List of key management issues

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  Tourist/visitor management (e.g. access to beaches).
  
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  Clearing and control of clearing for urban development.
  
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  Fire regimes that address both biodiversity and hazard reduction issues.
  
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  Control of root rot disease.
  
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  Restoring connectivity between remnants and removing barriers to the movement of fauna between remnants.
  
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  Weed control (e.g. aggressive weeds such as boneseed, veldt grass, South African love grass).
  

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  Feral animal eradication and/or control to reduce their impact on native flora and fauna.
  

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  Long term monitoring to inform future management.
  

References

Australian Surveying and Land Information Group (1990) Atlas of Australian Resources. Volume 6 Vegetation. AUSMAP, Department of Administrative Services, Canberra, 64pp. & 2 maps.

Beadle N.C.W. (1981) The Vegetation of Australia. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 690pp.

Beard J.S., Beetson, G.R, Harvey J.M. Hopkins A.J.M and Shepherd D.P. (2013) The Vegetation of Western Australia at 1:3,000,000 Scale. Explanatory Memoir. Second Edition. Science Division, Department of Parks and Wildlife, Western Australia.

Keith D. (2004) Ocean Shores to Desert Dunes. The native vegetation of New South Wales and the ACT. Department of Environment and Conservation (NSW), Hurstville

National Land and Water Resources Audit (2001) Australian Native Vegetation Assessment 2001. National Land and Water Resources Audit, Canberra, 332pp.

Neldner, V.J., Niehus, R.E., Wilson, B.A., McDonald, W.J.F. and Ford, A.J. (2014). The Vegetation of Queensland. Descriptions of Broad Vegetation Groups. Version 1.1. Queensland Herbarium, Department of Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts.

Victoria Department of Sustainability and Environment (2004).EVC Bioregion Benchmark for Vegetation Quality Assessment http://www.depi.vic.gov.au/environment-and-wildlife/biodiversity/evc-benchmarks [Accessed June 2015]

Data sources

Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA), Version 6.1.

National Vegetation Information System, Version 4.1.

1996/97 Land Use of Australia, Version 2.

Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database – CAPAD 2004 – Terrestrial.

Notes

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  See the Introduction to the MVG fact sheets for further background on this series.