. 2021 Feb 15;12:1023. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-21266-5

Table 1.

Impact of the 2019–2020 bushfires on vegetation types within the study area. Shown are area burned (FG_I; thousands of hectares) and as a percentage of the total (PF_T) across all 11 bioregions and in four coastal and near-coastal bioregions. Only Major Vegetation Groups >50% burnt (PF_T > 50%) and with an impact score (I_H) > 0.25 (see ‘Methods’) in at least one individual bioregion are shown.

Broad vegetation type^a	Grouped bioregions					Individual bioregions^d
Code	Major vegetation group (MVG)	All bioregions^b		Coastal bioregions^c		AUA	NAN	NET	NNC	SEC	SEH	SEQ	SYB
Code	Major vegetation group (MVG)	FG_I	PF_T	FG_I	PF_T	FG_I	FG_I	FG_I	FG_I	FG_I	FG_I	FG_I	FG_I
Rainforests and Vine Thickets
1	Rainforests and Vine Thickets	328.90	33.0	244.65	58.6			13.06^C	175.97^D	32.70^D
Eucalypt Forest and Woodlands
2	Eucalypt Tall Open Forests	1357.33	53.0	1116.97	56.0		11.40^B	144.24^C	753.62^C	152.76^D	80.42^C
3	Eucalypt Open Forests	3849.54	33.6	2246.06	64.4				479.76^C	816.58^D			700.48^C
4	Eucalypt Low Open Forests	102.33	56.7	84.78	58.4			18.89^C	65.04^D	0.57^E	1.05^D	9.55^D
5	Eucalypt Woodlands	1899.54	17.9	904.31	52.3					389.82^D
11	Eucalypt Open Woodlands	129.14	10.9	44.89	36.4				0.03^A		11.52^D		33.00^C
	Total	7337.88	28.2	4397.00	58.8				1,323.74^C	1,360.56^D			1,245.70^C
Other Forests and Woodlands
6	Acacia Forests and Woodlands	41.24	4.1	12.39	68.9	0.013^C				12.32^D	2.15^E		0.01^B
9	Melaleuca Forests and Woodlands	33.84	25.2	7.20	29.2						0.17^E
10	Other Forests and Woodlands	38.19	53.8	33.40	70.7					33.07^D
13	Acacia Open Woodlands	0.04	0.6	0.04	100			0.04^A
15	Low Closed Forests and Tall Closed Shrublands	14.10	13.5	0.14	27.7						0.55^D
	Total	248.96	8.5	100.85	38.4					46.56^D
Shrublands and Heathlands
14	Mallee Woodlands and Shrublands	19.53	7.5	12.81	79.4			4.27^A					6.99^B
16	Acacia Shrublands	2.87	13.8	1.34	24.8				0.20^B
17	Other Shrublands	20.20	12.7	11.54	31.1								1.93^B
18	Heathlands	175.1	55.6	148.90	68.1			3.64^A		12.30^D	10.59^B		128.08^B
	Total	217.74	28.9	174.59	63.0			11.95^D					137.04^B
Grasslands, Herblands, Sedgelands, Rushlands
19	Tussock Grasslands	26.38	3.4	0.93	14.0			0.06^C
21	Other Grasslands, Herblands, Sedgelands and Rushlands	32.5	20.3	11.22	42.0			5.25^A
	Total	59.12	6.24	12.4	36.2			5.31^A

^aNVIS Major Vegetation Groups (names and NVIS codes are shown for each) were grouped into four broad vegetation types. The full list of MVGs in each broad vegetation type is provided in Supplementary Table 1.

^bBioregions included in the study were: Australian Alps (AUA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Southeast Queensland (SEQ) and Sydney Basin (SYB).

^cNET, NNC, SYB, SEC.

^dFire area data provided only for severely impacted vegetation types with PF_T > 0.50 and impact score I_H > 0.25 in at least one bioregion (see ‘Methods’). Letters refer to I_H categories: A = I_H > 80%, B = I_H > 65–80%, C = I_H > 50–65%, D = I_H > 35–50% and E = I_H > 25–35%.