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Dowe CCA Zone 1 National Park Vegetation 2009 VIS_ID 4888

Vegetation community mapping for Dowe Community Conservation Area (CCA) Zone 1 National Park by John Hunter, 2009. A Northern Tablelands NPWS Region contract. Mapped at 1:50,000 scale. Dowe NP is north east of Gunnedah immediately adjacent to the east of Lake Keepit.

Five communities are defined based on classification (Kulczynski association). These five communities were mapped based on ground truthing, air photo interpretation and landform. The communities described and their status are: Floristic Community Area Reservation Status C1: White Cypress Pine – Silver-leaved Ironbark – White Box Woodland C2: White Box – White Cypress Pine Grassy Woodland C4: Yarran Shrubland A total of 170 vascular plant taxa were found from 51 families and 125 genera (22% exotic). No taxa of conservation significance were found during this or previous surveys.

Reference: Hunter,J.T. (2009). Vegetation and Floristics of the Dowe National Park. A report to the NSW NPWS.

VIS_ID 4888

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Language English
Alternative Title DoweNP_2009_E_4888
Edition 01/01/2009
Purpose Park and fire management
Frequency of change Unknown
Keywords VEGETATION-Floristic
Metadata Date 2018-07-11
Date of Asset Creation 2009-01-01
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Equivalent Scale 50000
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Record 1
Object type
Complex
Object count
Geospatial Topic Environment
NSW Place Name North east of Gunnedah, NSW
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Temporal Coverage From 2009-01-01
Datum GDA94 Geographic (Lat\Long)
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