Hornsby Local Government Area Remnant Trees, 2008

March 2007 data on remnant tree stands in the Hornsby Shire Local Government Area, Australia. Hornsby Shire Council mapped 569 stands in the urban district and 866 stands in the southern rural district, covering a total area of about 538.8 hectares. The stands represent remnants of 15 and 14 different native vegetation communities, respectively, including several listed as critically endangered or endangered.

Use Cases

• Assess conservation priority based on the size and community type of remnant stands.
• Monitor endangered ecological communities such as Blue Gum Shale Forest and Turpentine-Ironbark Forest.
• Plan urban development to avoid or mitigate impacts on locally significant vegetation.
• Analyze the distribution and total area of remnant tree stands across urban and rural districts.
• Identify communities, like Shale Gravel Transition Forest, that may only exist as remnant trees in the shire.

Strengths

• Includes specific counts of mapped stands: 569 in the urban district and 866 in the southern rural district.
• Provides total area figures: about 130 ha for urban stands and 408.8 ha for rural stands.
• Identifies the conservation status of vegetation communities under NSW and Commonwealth legislation.
• Data is explicitly geospatial, available in formats like ESRI REST and WMS for mapping integration.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2026-05-12 23:14:56.670418; freshness should be verified.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to a single 2007-2008 survey.

Provenance

Source

Hornsby Shire Council

Collection Method

Two separate mapping studies of remnant trees in the urban and southern rural districts.

Time Range

2007-2008

Freshness

Data reflects a 2007 survey, last updated in the platform metadata on 2026-05-12.

Geography

Hornsby Local Government Area, New South Wales, Australia