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Native Vegetation Group 4 - Box Ironbark Forests or dry/lower fertility Woodlands

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Box Ironbark Forests or dry/lower fertility Woodlands Native Vegetation Map

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Ecological Vegetation Class Descriptions

4.1 Box Ironbark Forests or dry/lower fertility woodlands EVC 24 Foothill Box Ironbark Forest EVC 61 Box Ironbark Forest EVC 64 Rocky Chenopod Woodland EVC 72 Granitic Hills Woodland

Bioregional Conservation Status and EVC benchmarks


4.1 Box Ironbark Forests or dry/lower fertility Woodlands

EVC 24 Foothill Box Ironbark Forest
A woodland to open forest occurring on dry north and west facing Tertiary limestone cliffs and on slopes of Ordovician marine sediments. The dominant overstorey trees usually include Red Ironbark Eucalyptus tricarpaand Red Box Eucalyptus polyanthemos or Coast Grey-Box Eucalyptus bosistoana. A well-developed understorey tree layer is often present with a tall shrub layer and a ground layer consisting of low shrubs and herbs.

EVC 61 Box Ironbark Forest
Occurs on gently undulating rises, low hills and peneplains on infertile, often stony soils derived from a range of geologies. The open overstorey consists of a variety of eucalypts, often including one of the Ironbark species. The mid storey often forms a dense to open small tree or shrub layer over an open ground layer ranging from a sparse to well-developed suite of herbs and grasses.

EVC 64 Rocky Chenopod Woodland
Low open woodland with an understorey dominated by chenopod (saltbush) species. Occurs on ridge-tops and steep upper slopes of hills with skeletal duplex soils that tend to have a high salt content and are fairly porous or impervious to water.

EVC 72 Granitic Hills Woodland
Mainly restricted to granite rocky outcrops and structurally consists of a low woodland with the dominant trees often being stunted.

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Bioregional Conservation Status and EVC benchmarks

An EVC may have a different conservation status in each bioregion in which it is found. To look up an EVC's Bioregional Conservation Status (BCS), download the spreadsheet on the Simplified Native Vegetation Groups page.

You can also use this spreadsheet to help find the corresponding EVC benchmarks, which are listed by bioregion.

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