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Vegetation Home | Ecological Vegetation Classes (EVC's) | Remnant Vegetation

The Biodiversity Interactive Map on the DSE website (external link) allows users to display a number of vegetation themes for any area of Victoria - including Ecological Vegetation Classes (EVCs), 1750 EVCs, broad EVC Groups and Bioregional Conservation Status of EVCs. Users can then print out the maps they have created.

East Gippsland Bioregions

The East Gippsland region lies largely within the East Gippsland Uplands, East Gippsland Lowlands, Victorian Alps and Highlands - Southern Fall bioregions. Smaller areas lie within the Highlands - Northern Fall and Gippsland Plain bioregions.

Ecological Vegetation Classes (EVCs) are the basic mapping units used for biodiversity planning and conservation assessment at landscape, regional and broader scales in Victoria. They are derived from large-scale forest type and plant community mapping and are based on the following types of information:

• plant communities and forest types (including species and structural information);
• ecological information relevant to the species that comprise the communities (including life-form and reproductive strategies); and
• information that describes variation in the physical environment (including aspect, elevation, geology and soils, landform, rainfall, salinity and climatic zones).

Each EVC represents one or more plant (floristic) communities that occur in similar types of environments. The floristic communities within each EVC tend to show similar ecological responses to environmental factors such as disturbance (eg. wildfire). As well as representing plant communities, EVCs can be used as a guide to the distribution of individual species and groups of species, including animals and lower plants such as mosses and liverworts.

Information about Regional Forest Agreement in East Gippsland (including maps) (external link) can be found on the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry website. This includes information on: Regional Forest Agreement, Comprehensive Regional Assessment, Ecologically Sustainable Forest Management Report, and Factsheets.

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