Vegetation community mapping for the Worimi Conservation Lands - Worimi National Park, Worimi State Conservation Area and Worimi Regional Park, by Stephen Bell and Colin Driscoll, 2010. A Hunter NPWS Region contract. The Worimi Conservation Lands have been identified as a significant cultural landscape and are managed through a board of management by registered Aboriginal Owners and the Department of Environment and Heritage. The area covers 4,200 hectares. This vegetation map supercedes the previous Stockton Bight vegetation mapping. VIS_ID 3903

Vegetation community mapping for Watchimbark Nature Reserve by Lachlan Copeland and Antony von Chrismar of Eco Logical Australia Pty Ltd. The project was fully funded and supported by National Parks and Wildlife Hunter Region and the Gloucester Area Office. The vegetation survey was conducted from June-July 2009 and included the collection of data from 13 full-floristic 0.04 ha plots and 30 rapid point surveys. VIS_ID 4490

This layer contains digital vegetation mapping of the NPWS (2003) Native vegetation of the Woronora, O'Hares and Metropolitan Catchments. NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. The layer includes the boundaries of vegetation communities and lists attributes including vegetation community, structure and disturbance. NPWS (2003) Native vegetation of the Woronora, O'Hares and Metropolitan Catchments. NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Sydney ANZNS0208000234 VIS ID 2387

"Vegetation map from: Portners, M.F. (2001). Vegetation Survey of Woggoon and Tollingo Nature Reserves (Central West Region of NSW). Report for the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. NSW NPWS, Sydney. The composition and extent of the present vegetation within Woggoon (6,565 ha) and Tollingo (3,232 ha) Nature Reserves in the Central West Region of NSW, is described and mapped from intensive quadrat samples, field traverses and aerial photograph interpretation. Woggoon and Tollingo Nature Reserves represent the largest eastern-most mallee remnants in NSW. Four vegetation communities are described and 152 species (158 taxa) of vascular plants recorded from 44 families, 21 of which are at their geographical limits or regionally restricted. These include four species listed as restricted plants in the Western Division of NSW. A small proportion of species (7%) are exotic. Both reserves are similar, but not identical in vegetation structure and composition, with several taxa unique to each reserve." VIS_ID 1007

Vegetation Map from Porteners, M.F. (December 2001). Vegetation Survey of Ingalba, Big Bush and Pucawan Nature Reserves. Report for the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Riverina Region. The composition and extent of the present vegetation within Ingalba, Big Bush and Pucawan Nature Reserves in the Riverina Region of NSW, is described and mapped at 1: 50 000 scale from intensive quadrat samples, field traverses and aerial photograph interpretation. Two vegetation communities are described and 113 species of vascular plants recorded from 41 families, 12 of which are at their geographical limits or regionally restricted. A small proportion of species (8%) are exotic. The reserves are very similar in vegetation structure and composition, with several taxa unique to each reserve. (VIS_ID 902)

"Wollemi National Park Vegetation. Vegetation map digitised from: Bell, S.A.J. (1998). Wollemi National Park Vegetation Survey. A Fire Management Document. Report to the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Upper Hunter District. Final Report, August 1998. Volumes 1 and 2. Extensive vegetation survey and mapping of Wollemi National Park was carried out over much of 1997, adding substantially to the limited systematic survey previously completed in the area. Due to the large size of the Park (nearly half a million hectares), a stratified sampling procedure was employed to enable sampling of most variation present. This procedure considered geology, aspect, elevation, physiographical position, climate, broad vegetation type, and geographical location. In this way, a total of approx. 360 detailed floristic sites (current and previous surveys) were examined for floristic and structural variation, revealing a total of over 1360 plant species. Seventy-two (72) vegetation communities have been delineated for Wollemi National Park, based on the current survey and that completed by previous workers. The diversity of vegetation types present in the Park includes representatives of rainforest, forest, woodland, scrub, heath, shrubland, sedgeland, swamp, grassland, reedland, and Sphagnum bog structural types. Cluster analysis of 358 detailed survey plots (200 completed during the current survey combined with 158 previously completed sites) was carried using the PATN computer package to assist delineation of communities, analysing cover abundance data with the Bray-Curtis association measure. Distinct identification of vegetation types was not always possible based on this analysis, due to the incorporation of datasets from a range of workers, as well as a lack of site replication from specific environmental strata and under-sampling of remote locations. Following the techniques initially trialed in the mapping of Yengo National Park (Bell et al 1993), floristic vegetation communities occurring in Wollemi National Park have been mapped using the predictive modeling capabilities of the NPWS Arcview geographical system. While such techniques do lessen accuracy levels to some degree, the large size of the Park and the limited time available for extensive and detailed ground truthing and hand-based mapping warrant their use. Computer derived vegetation maps are considered the most economical alternative for mapping such large areas of land. During this process, the overlapping of specific environmental variables for each vegetation type (eg: geology, elevation, rainfall, broad vegetation, aspect) are utilised to determine the geographical distribution of that type on the ground.To assist in the modeling process, ten vegetation provinces were delineated for the area, based on distinct vegetation patterns observed from Landsat imagery, together with major geological and geomorphological features. These provinces essentially provide an additional layer (environmental variable) for use in computer manipulation and vegetation distribution prediction." VIS_ID 1849