Vegetation of the Gippsland Lakes Victoria Australia catchment

Abstract

The catchment of the Gippsland Lakes, Victoria, was surveyed between November 1977 and December 1978, using a floristics-based, quadrat-sampling technique. The data from 722 quadrat sites were analysed via a computer-based, numerical sorting and classification procedure to determine the major, floristie vegetation types of the areas. These types were then arranged, hierarchically, into 13 floristie communities each of which contained one or more distinct, floristie subcommunities.