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Regional Ecosystems (Cover Codes) in the Brisbane City Council area.
Regional ecosystems (RE's) are vegetation communities in a bioregion that are consistently associated with a particular combination of geology, landform and soil (Sattler and Williams 1999, Vegetation Management Act 1999).
Vegetation Cover- Brisbane supports a range of different vegetation cover. These being Remnant and Non-remnant vegetation. Remnant vegetation is further split into regional ecosystems, whilst non-remnant is split into eight.
- Canal - man-made.
- Disturbed - predominantly thinned vegetation that no longer meets criteria for remnant vegetation on the basis of canopy cover.
- Exotic - vegetation dominated by exotic species.
- Native plantation e.g. Eucalyptus spp., mixed native cabinet timber species.
- Plantation - predominantly pine plantation (Pinus spp.) and hoop/bunya pine.
- Regrowth - vegetation that has been cleared and has regrown but still does not meet the criteria for remnant vegetation.
- Rehabilitation area - actively managed e.g. 2 Million Trees area.
- Water - anthropogenic water bodies.
This dataset was derived from the Queensland Herbarium dataset Regional Ecosystems 2015.