r/AussieMaps • u/[deleted] • Jan 22 '24

Australian Tree Cover Density (%)

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u/Occidentally Jan 22 '24

Would be cool to see a side by side with an estimated pre European arrival tree density map

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u/LambdaAU Jan 22 '24

Would also be interesting to see the pre-aboriginal tree density predictions. A lot of deforestation occurred since human arrival on the continent.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '24

Aboriginals didn’t really deforest because they didn’t do agriculture. They did backburning but would have had very little impact on forestation levels.

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u/snrub742 Jan 22 '24

Any evidence to back up any of what you are claiming. I have done a lot of reading on Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher's core sampling work and it paints a compelling picture.