Native Vegetation Integrity Benchmarks
An information sheet
The focus of this document is the new Vegetation Integrity Benchmarks.
Benchmarks describe the reference state to which sites are compared to score their site-scale biodiversity values.
The three primary attributes of biodiversity, composition, structure and function, can be described by benchmarks.
When scores for composition, structure and function are combined into a vegetation integrity score, they provide the rigour and transparency needed to make site-scaled comparisons and inform natural resource management decision making tools such as the Biodiversity Assessment Method (BAM).
The BAM improves on past approaches in six core areas.