DBCA Statewide Vegetation Statistics: Pre-European and Current Extent in Western Australia

From 2007 to 2018, the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions provided regular updates on vegetation association extents within Western Australia's IBRA bioregions. The reporting is based on Beards pre-European vegetation mapping at a 1:250,000 scale. These statistics were used for conservation planning, land use planning, and assessing development applications.

Use Cases

• Assessing progress towards a comprehensive, adequate, and representative (CAR) conservation reserve system based on the statistics included in the report.
• Historical conservation planning based on pre-European and current vegetation association extents within IBRA sub-regions.
• Land use planning and development application assessment using the general overview of vegetation association status.
• Analyzing vegetation change over time based on the reported statistics from 2007 to 2018.

Strengths

• Report covers a defined 11-year period from 2007 to 2018.
• Based on systematic Beards vegetation mapping at a 1:250,000 scale.
• Includes statistics for achieving a comprehensive, adequate, and representative (CAR) reserve system.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Data is explicitly described as a historic archive and may be out of date.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA), author Janine Kinloch.

Collection Method

Analysis based on Beards (pre-European) vegetation mapping of systems and associations at 1:250,000.

Time Range

2007 to 2018 (reporting period).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-11 22:01:44.519032; freshness should be verified

Geography

Western Australia, within IBRA (Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia) bioregions or sub-regions.