Glossary

Term	What it means
Bioregion	A large area sharing geology, landform, climate and vegetation. Four cover this region (1.1).
EVC	Ecological Vegetation Class. The mapped vegetation type for a piece of ground, with a number and a name (1.2).
EVD	Ecological Vegetation Division. EVCs grouped by how they behave; the level that carries the fire intervals (1.4).
Tolerable fire interval	The shortest and longest gaps between fires a vegetation type can take without losing species (1.4).
Growth stage	How long since the last fire: juvenile, young, mature or old (2.1).
Resprouter	A plant that survives fire and reshoots from protected buds, in bark or underground (2.2).
Obligate seeder	A plant killed by fire that returns only from seed. The group most at risk from repeat fire (2.2).
Epicormic shoots	New growth emerging straight from bark on a trunk or limb — the clearest sign a tree survived.
Fire ephemeral	A short-lived plant that germinates after fire, holds the soil and then largely disappears (2.2).
Seedbank	Seed held in the soil or in woody fruit, waiting for the conditions — often heat or smoke — to germinate.
DBH	Diameter at breast height. The standard way to record tree size (4.6).
Hollow-bearing tree	A tree with cavities animals can use. Living or dead (4.5).
Stag	A standing dead tree. Often the best hollow habitat on a property (4.5).
Provenance	Where planting stock originally came from. Local provenance is adapted to local conditions (4.9).
Listening station	An automated unit that records and identifies bird calls continuously (3.6).
Atlas of Living Australia	The national database your iNaturalist records flow into (3.2).