THE BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE EASTERN GOLDFIELDS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Vegetation and Flora

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Introduction: During the present survey of the Barlee-Menzies Study Area, vegetation was described from plotless sample sites as specified by Biological Surveys Committee of Western Australia (1984). From the survey, 24 vegetation sites were selected to cover the 8landform units across the Study Area. The locations of these vegetation sample sites are provided in Appendix 1 and, except for BM24, are shown in Figure 2. The sites are broadly classified, on the basis of structure and species composition of the upper stratum, into vegetation types. Two of the types (Breakaway and Granite) were referred to as vegetation complexes, because their structure and species composition changed markedly over distances of a few metres.