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Table 2 Vegetation community, total area, total area burned, and area burned for each burn severity class against the four dominant vegetation communities, in each of the burned subcatchments (Burke River, Erskine Creek, Glenbrook Creek, and Nattai River).

From: Post-Fire Recovery of Eucalypt-Dominated Vegetation Communities in the Sydney Basin, Australia

Subcatchment

Vegetation community

±95% pre-NDVI values

Total area (ha)

Total area burned (%)

Area burned ha (%)

Extreme

Very high

High

Moderate

Low

Unburned

 

DSFg

0.65

        

Burke

DSFs

0.62

7 256

91

611 (8)

2058 (28)

2129 (29)

1240 (17)

561 (8)

657 (9)

WSFs

0.66

506

1

0 (0)

0 (0)

0.3 (0.1)

1 (0.2)

2 (0.4)

502 (99)

 

RF

0.69

33

2

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0.3 (1)

0.4 (1)

32 (98)

 

DSFg

         

Erskine

DSFs

0.62

17 076

89

2715 (16)

5804 (34)

3992 (23)

1916 (11)

785 (5)

186 (11)

WSFs

0.67

2 398

78

112 (5)

576 (24)

536 (22)

395 (16)

249 (10)

529 (22)

 

RF

0.68

1 015

60

23 (2)

173 (17)

172 (17)

144 (14)

96 (9)

407 (40)

 

DSFg

         

Glenbrook

DSFs

0.60

8 957

83

189 (2)

1505 (17)

2650 (30)

2011 (22)

1073 (12)

1 528 (17)

WSFs

0.63

828

54

0.9 (0.1)

47 (6)

135 (16)

140 (16)

123 (15)

383 (46)

 

RF

0.63

576

48

2 (0.3)

37 (6)

87 (15)

88 (15)

62 (11)

300 (52)

 

DSFg

0.59

6 282

84

81 (1)

1122 (18)

2254 (36)

1319 (21)

4848)

1022 (16)

Nattai

DSFs

0.59

24 202

59

763 (3)

2843 (12)

5634 (23)

3764 (16)

1176(5)

10 022 (41)

WSFs

0.62

3 414

58

65 (2)

266 (8)

709(21)

671 (20)

264 (8)

1 439 (42)

 

RF

0.65

277

45

4 (2)

18 (6)

30 (11)

44 (16)

28 (10)

153 (55)