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Wirilda-Eucalyptus-Allocasuarina Open Grassy Woodland, SA. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes

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Updated 25/06/2025

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The aim of this project is to compile land use and management practices and their observed and measured impacts and effects on vegetation condition. The results provide land managers and researchers with a tool for reporting and monitoring spatial and temporal transformations of Australia’s native vegetated landscapes due to changes in land use and management practices. Following are the details about Wirilda-Eucalyptus-Allocasuarina open grassy woodland, SA.

Pre-European reference-analogue vegetation: river red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis), blue gum (E. leucoxylon) - drooping sheoak (Allocasuarina verticillata) open woodland.

Brief chronology of changes in land use and management: 1750-1849: Meru indigenous people manage the area 1838: Explorers traversed the area 1850: Pastoralists with shepherds, grazing sheep 1883: Land selected, boundary fencing established 1883-1900: Continuous grazing with sheep and cattle grazing native vegetation 1890: Heavy timber cutting for Callington and Kanmantoo mines, sheep grazing 1901-72: Continuous grazing with sheep and cattle grazing modified and native pastures 1901-ongoing: Area invaded by invasive pasture species (oats) and weeds 1950: Commenced fertilizing pastures using super - applied aerially 1972: Area purchased by the Lay family 1974: Ceased applications of super fertilizer, ceased grazing, all cattle removed 1974-1981: Planted thousands of local endemic seedlings mainly trees and shrubs 1974-2012: Monitoring and recording of seedling survival and regeneration 1974-1985, 2006-12: Major effort in controlling weeds and feral animals 1982: Area gazetted as a Heritage Agreement 1992: Massive summer rains (a 1:430 year event) with major erosion along watercourses and regeneration of most species 2004: Neighbour starts fire that burns out 25% of area 2006: Area gains a 10 year package of funding under the “bushbids” biodiversity stewardship programme 2007: Monadenia weed orchid and bridal creeper begin to invade area.

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Title Wirilda-Eucalyptus-Allocasuarina Open Grassy Woodland, SA. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/344d65ab-575e-40de-9fdc-cefa06517210
Contact Point
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network�s Data Discovery
rthackway@netspeed.com.au
Reference Period 01/01/1838 - 31/12/2011
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    139.023803,
    -35.000369
  ],
  "type": "Point"
}
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This dataset was originally found on Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network "Wirilda-Eucalyptus-Allocasuarina Open Grassy Woodland, SA. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/wirilda-eucalyptus-allocasuarina-open-grassy-woodland-sa-vast-2-tracking-the-transformation-of-