This is a list of Major Vegetations Groups and Subgroups in Australia. Major Vegetation Groups and Major Vegetation Subgroups are categories used by the

Department of the Environment and Energy The Department of the Environment and Energy (DEE) was an Australian government department in existence between 2016 and 2020. The department was responsible for matters including environment protection and conservation of biodiversity as well ...

as part of its National Vegetation Information System. The Major Vegetation Groups are broadly defined as representative of distinct vegetative environments; they may extend over large areas and often contain more than one vegetation association or community. They were originally defined as part of the National Vegetation Information System framework for the Australian Native Vegetation Assessment 2001. As of 2022, the most recent update was version 6.0, in 2020.NVIS data products
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the environment and Water, Government of Australia (accessed 27-Oct-2022)

Major Vegetation Groups

In version 6.0 there are 33 Major Vegetation Groups, including some groups representing absence of knowledge or absence of vegetation: *

Rainforests Rainforests are characterized by a closed and continuous tree canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire. Rainforest can be classified as tropical rainforest or temperate rainforest ...

and Vine Thickets *

Eucalypt Eucalypt is a descriptive name for woody plants with capsule fruiting bodies belonging to seven closely related genera (of the tribe Eucalypteae) found across Australasia: ''Eucalyptus'', ''Corymbia'', ''Angophora'', '' Stockwellia'', ''Allosyn ...

Tall Open Forests * Eucalypt Open Forests * Eucalypt Low Open Forests * Eucalypt Woodlands * Acacia Forests and

Woodlands Woodlands may back refer to: * Woodland, a low-density forest Geography Australia * Woodlands, New South Wales * Woodlands, Ashgrove, Queensland, a heritage-listed house associated with John Henry Pepper * Woodlands, Marburg, Queensland, a her ...

* Callitris Forests and Woodlands *

Casuarina ''Casuarina'' is a genus of 17 tree species in the family Casuarinaceae, native to Australia, the Indian subcontinent, southeast Asia, islands of the western Pacific Ocean, and eastern Africa. It was once treated as the sole genus in the fa ...

Forests and Woodlands * Melaleuca Forests and Woodlands * Other Forests and Woodlands * Eucalypt Open Woodlands *

Tropical The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator. They are defined in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere at N and the Tropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere at S. The tropics are also referred to ...

Eucalypt Woodlands/ Grasslands * Acacia Open Woodlands * Mallee Woodlands and Shrublands * Low Closed Forests and Tall Closed

Shrublands Spring Park is a small area in London, England. It is within the London Borough of Bromley and the London Borough of Croydon, straddling the traditional Kent-Surrey border along The Beck. Spring Park is located north of Addington, west of West ...

* Acacia Shrublands * Other Shrublands * Heathlands * Tussock Grasslands *

Hummock In geology, a hummock is a small knoll or mound above ground.Bates, Robert L. and Julia A. Jackson, ed. (1984). “hummock.” Dictionary of Geological Terms, 3rd Ed. New York: Anchor Books. p. 241. They are typically less than in height and ...

Grasslands * Other Grasslands, Herblands, Sedgelands and Rushlands * Chenopod Shrublands,

Samphire Samphire is a name given to a number of succulent salt-tolerant plants ( halophytes) that tend to be associated with water bodies. *Rock samphire, ''Crithmum maritimum'' is a coastal species with white flowers that grows in Ireland, the Uni ...

Shrublands and Forblands *

Mangroves A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water. The term is also used for tropical coastal vegetation consisting of such species. Mangroves are taxonomically diverse, as a result of convergent evolution in severa ...

* Inland Aquatic - freshwater, salt lakes,

lagoons A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by a narrow landform, such as reefs, barrier islands, barrier peninsulas, or isthmuses. Lagoons are commonly divided into ''coastal lagoons'' (or ''barrier lagoons'') an ...

* Cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings * Unclassified native vegetation * Naturally bare - sand, rock, claypan, mudflat * Sea and

estuaries An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea. Estuaries form a transition zone between river environments and maritime environmen ...

* Regrowth, modified native vegetation * Unclassified forest * Other Open Woodlands * Mallee Open Woodlands and Sparse Mallee Shrublands * Unknown data

Major Vegetation Subgroups

The Major Vegetation Subgroups were defined for the purposes of finer scale mapping and regional analyses. Version 6.0 contains 85 subgroups. In version 3.1 (approximately 2007), the Major Vegetation Subgroups were: * Cool temperate rainforest * Tropical or sub-tropical rainforest * Eucalyptus tall open forest with a dense broad-leaved understorey (wet sclerophyll) * Eucalyptus open forests with a shrubby understorey * Eucalyptus open forests with a grassy understorey * Tropical Eucalyptus forest and woodlands with a tall annual grassy understorey * Eucalyptus woodlands with a shrubby understorey * Eucalyptus woodlands with a grassy understorey * Tropical mixed spp forests and woodlands * Callitris forests and woodlands * Brigalow (Acacia harpophylla) forests and woodlands * Other Acacia forests and woodlands * Melaleuca open forests and woodlands * Other forests and woodlands * Boulders/rock with algae, lichen or scattered plants, or alpine fjaeldmarks * Eucalyptus low open woodlands with hummock grass * Eucalyptus low open woodlands with tussock grass * Mulga (Acacia aneura) woodlands with tussock grass * Other Acacia tall open shrublands and shrublands * Arid and semi-arid acacia low open woodlands and shrublands with chenopods * Arid and semi-arid acacia low open woodlands and shrublands with hummock grass * Arid and semi-arid acacia low open woodlands and shrublands with tussock grass * Casuarina and Allocasuarina forests and woodlands * Mallee with hummock grass * Low closed forest or tall closed shrublands (including Acacia, Melaleuca and Banksia) * Mallee with a dense shrubby understorey *

Heath A heath () is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths with—especially in Great Britain—a cooler a ...

* Saltbush and Bluebush shrublands * Other shrublands * Hummock grasslands * Mitchell grass (Astrebla) tussock grasslands * Blue grass (Dicanthium) and tall bunch grass (Chrysopogon) tussock grasslands * Temperate tussock grasslands * Other tussock grasslands * Wet tussock grassland with herbs, sedges or rushes, herblands or ferns * Mixed chenopod, samphire +/- forbs *

Mangrove A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water. The term is also used for tropical coastal vegetation consisting of such species. Mangroves are taxonomically diverse, as a result of convergent evolution in severa ...

s * Saline or brackish sedgelands or grasslands * Naturally bare, sand, rock, claypan, mudflat * Salt lakes and lagoons * Hamster vines and rodent droppings * Freshwater, dams, lakes, lagoons or aquatic plants * Sea, estuaries (includes seagrass) * Eucalyptus open woodlands with shrubby understorey * Eucalyptus open woodlands with a grassy understorey * Melaleuca shrublands and open shrublands * Banksia woodlands * Mulga (Acacia aneura) woodlands and shrublands with hummock grass * Allocasuarina woodland and open woodland with hummock grass * Eucalyptus low open woodlands with a shrubby understorey * Eucalyptus tall open forest with a fine-leaved shrubby understorey * Mallee with an open shrubby understorey * Eucalyptus low open woodlands with a chenopod or samphire understorey * Lignum shrublands and wetlands * Leptospermum forests * Eucalyptus woodlands with ferns, herbs, sedges, rushes or wet tussock grassland * Eucalyptus tall open forests and open forests with ferns, herbs, sedges, rushes or wet tussock grasses * Mallee with a tussock grass understorey * Dry rainforest or vine thickets * Sedgelands, rushes or reeds * Other grasslands * Regrowth or modified forests and woodlands * Regrowth or modified shrublands * Regrowth or modified graminoids * Regrowth or modified chenopod shrublands, samphire or forblands *Unclassified native vegetation *Cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings *Unknown/No data

References

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External links

NVIS 6.0 Major Vegetation Groups (numeric order)
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Government of Australia.
NVIS 6.0 Major Vegetation Subgroups (numeric order)
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Government of Australia. Vegetation