South-east Australian vegetation vulerable to climate change

Victoria and New South Wales feature prominently in a global map revealing areas of vegetation most sensitive to some of the ravages of climate change.

The map, produced by Norwegian and British scientists from 14 years of satellite observations, and published in the journal Nature, shows most parts of south-eastern Australia are least able to cope with the changes in air temperature, water availability and cloud cover wrought by global warming.

Read Peter Spinks’ story in today’s Melbourne Age - “South-east Australia highlighted in global map of vegetation sensitive to climate change.”