Ground Cover - Tree Canopy
Benchmark Value
Scoring Curve
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Evidence & Context
Therefore, a representative range for high-health, well-developed Tropical and Subtropical Rainforests in conservation areas is 70-90% TCC.
Tree Canopy Cover (TCC): This metric is defined as the percentage of ground area covered by the vertical projection of the outermost perimeter of tree crowns.
Tree Canopy Cover (TCC) in Tropical and Subtropical Rainforests conservation areas represents the percentage of ground covered by tree crowns, with 70-90% indicating a high-health, well-developed canopy.
This range is derived from field data and is corroborated by monitoring of high-quality conservation offset sites showing TCC of 70-98%.
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Approved Conservation Advice for the Lowland tropical rainforest of ...
View SourceAppendix E TEC Lowland rainforest offset area monitoring report year 1 - Transport and Main Roads
View SourceBioCondition Benchmarks for Regional Ecosystem Condition Assessment - South East Queensland Bioregion
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Approved Conservation Advice for the Lowland tropical rainforest of the Wet Tropics ecological community
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Additional references from the underlying research that informed this benchmark.
BioCondition: A condition assessment framework for terrestrial ...
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