		Advanced Search
	Home \| About Us \| Feedback \| Help \| Site Map

Home > Native Plants & Animals > Vegetation of Tasmania

Animals of Tasmania

Vegetation of Tasmania
	Vegetation Types and Communities
	Native Plant Species
	Managing & Monitoring Threats to Native Plants & Communities
	Scientific Collection and Commercial Use of Native Plant Species
	Species and Communities of Significance

Threatened Species

Vegetation of Tasmania

For such a tiny island state, the diversity of Tasmania's vegetation is astounding - mosaics of alpine herb fields and colourful heathland, ancient rainforests, tracts of native grasslands and dry windswept coastal vegetation.

Tasmania can lay claim to some of the most ancient plant species on earth, the tallest flowering tree, and a large array of diminutive beauties such as terrestrial orchids. On forest floors live a rich array of ferns, mosses and fungi while sea beds and reefs are covered by a graceful profusion of seaweeds. With such breathtaking and irreplaceable diversity comes a responsibility to understand, manage and protect this unique array of life.
A sample of Tasmanian vegetation

	Vegetation Types and Communities Tasmania has very diverse habitats created by the large variation in altitude, water availability and soil types.

	Native Plant Species Tasmania has a diverse and unique array of plant species.

	Managing & Monitoring Threats to Native Plants & Communities The maintenance of Tasmania's rich and unique plant biodiversity is dependent on maintaining the ecological processes that support our species, vegeta...

	Scientific Collection and Commercial Use of Native Plant Species The collection and commercial harvest and use of native species is in some case regulated. Includes information on how to undertake these activities l...

	Species and Communities of Significance The value of a natural area is primarily related to elements, which are considered to have some attribute that makes them significant and or special.

Further information:

From Forest to Fjaeldmark: Descriptions of Tasmania's Vegetation

See the Threatened Species area of this website.

Technical Manual for Vegetation Monitoring - a toolbox for ecologists.

Monitoring and Mapping Tasmania's Vegetation - (TASVEG)

Tasmania Online | Service Tasmania

This page - http://www.dpipwe.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/ThemeNodes/BHAN-54746E?open - was last published on 19 August 2009 by the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment. Questions concerning its content can be sent to NatureConservation Enquiries by using the feedback form, by mail to GPO Box 44, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 7001, or by telephone to 03 6233 6556.

Please read our disclaimer and copyright statements governing the information we provide on this site.

A text version of this page is also available.