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Checklist of Ecological Units in Otanewainuku Ecological Appendix 1 C hecklist of ecological units in O tanewainuku E cological D istrict Key Extent * absent or present due to natural disturbance H present due to human intervention P Present Mn Minor C Common Mj Major Change - decrease 0 no change + increase Protection status 1. Represented in the reserve system. 2. Under-represented in the reserve system. 3. Under-represented in the reserve system and a major part of original landscape, but not greatly reduced in extent. 4. Under-represented in the reserve system, major part of original landscape now greatly reduced in extent. Land systems 1. Whakamarama Plateau 2. Northern Mamaku Plateau 3. Papamoa Hills 4. Rotoiti Breccia Ignimbrite Fan 5. Otamarakau Hills 6. Sand Dunes 7. Matata Hills 8. Otuhepo Hills New Zealand Protected Natural Areas Programme No. 37 253 254 Bioclimatic Hydrological Land Vegetation Type Landform Former Present Change Protection Zone Element System Extent1 Extent Status (Present Extent) Dune habitats Coastal palustrine, 6 Dune hollow wetlands dune hollow C C 0 1 estuarine Coastal terrestrial 6 Ficinia nodosa/Muehlenbeckia rear dune C C + 1 complexa vineland and sedgeland Beadel—Otanewainuku Ecological District PNA survey report Coastal terrestrial 6 Spinifex sandfield and grassland fore dune C C - 1 Freshwater wetlands Lowland palustrine 2 Baumea teretifolia sedgeland lagoon margin + P 0 1 Lowland palustrine 2 Lake lake Mn P,H Lowland palustrine 2 Manuka/Baumea rubiginosa-Gahnia wetland Mn P 0 2 xanthocarpa-toetoe/Sphagnum shrubland Semi-coastal palustrine 4 (Manuka)-(grey willow)-(swamp alluvial flat Mn P - 2 coprosma)/raupo-Gleichenia microphylla-Baumea sp. (B. teretifolia?)/ Sphagnum shrub-sedge- fern-reedland Lowland palustrine 2 Manuka-harakeke-toetoe-raupo/ alluvial flat Mn P - 2 Baumea tenax-B. teretifolia-B. arthrophylla-swamp kiokio sedge- shrubland Lowland palustrine 2 Manuka-monoao/Baumea teretifolia- wetland Mn P 0 2 Gleichenia dicarpa-Sphagnum sedge-shrubland Lowland palustrine 2 Manuka-monoao/Gahnia-Astelia mire Mn Mn + 2 grandis-Gleichenia dicarpa/ Sphagnum shrubland and scrub Lowland palustrine 2 Manuka-swamp coprosma scrub and lagoon margin * P 0 2 shrubland mire 1. Pre-Polynesian Bioclimatic Hydrological Land Vegetation Type Landform Former Present Change Protection Zone Element System Extent1 Extent Status (Present Extent) Coastal palustrine 7 Manuka scrub and shrubland swamp C + - 4 Semi-coastal palustrine 4,2 swamp Mn P - 2 Lowland palustrine 2,1 lagoon margin Mn P - 2 Lowland palustrine 2 Myriophyllum pedunculatum lagoon margin + P 0 1 herbfield New Coastal palustrine 4,5,6,7 Raupo reedland swamp Mn P - 2 Semi-coastal palustrine 2,3,4,7 Mn P - 2 Zealand Lowland palustrine 2 Mn P - 2 Coastal palustrine 4,5,7 Sedge-grass-reed wetland associations swamp C Mn - 4 Protected Semi-coastal palustrine 2,3,4,5,7 swamp Mn Mn - 2 Lowland palustrine 2 swamp Mn Mn - 2 Natural Scrub and shrubland Lowland terrestrial 2 Kamahi-toetoe-kanono-mahoe-wao gully * P + 1 Areas scrub and shrubland Lowland terrestrial 2 Manuka-toetoe shrubland (other flat * P 0 2 Programme broad-leaved species locally dominant). Lowland terrestrial 2 Mahoe-mahoe-wao-kohuhu-toetoe- bluffs * P + 1 No. bracken-wheki-pate scrub and 37 shrubland Lowland terrestrial 2 Manuka-bracken-kiokio fernland gorge, hillslope * P + 1 Lowland terrestrial 2 Mingimingi-kiokio-kamahi scrub and steep face * P + 1 shrubland Lowland palustrine 2 Myriophyllum pedunculatum subsp. wetland P P 0 2 novae-zelandiae herbfield Semi-coastal terrestrial 2 Rewarewa-kanuka-kamahi-kiokio- steep hillslope * P + 1 mamaku shrubland and gorge face, ridge 1. Pre-Polynesian 255 256 Bioclimatic Hydrological Land Vegetation Type Landform Former Present Change Protection Zone Element System Extent1 Extent Status (Present Extent) Coastal terrestrial 7 Secondary scrub, shrubland and hillslope * Mn + 2 Semi-coastal terrestrial 2,3,4,5,7 fernland hillslope * Mn + 2 Lowland terrestrial 1,2 hillslope * Mn + 2 Montane terrestrial 1 hillslope * Mj + 2 Lowland palustrine 2 Tanekaha/manuka scrub and alluvial terrace - P - 2 Beadel—Otanewainuku Ecological District PNA survey report shrubland Lowland terrestrial 2 Tanekaha-rewarewa/manuka scrub gorge, hillslope * P + 2 Lowland terrestrial 2 Tawa-hinau/kamahi-toetoe-kanono- gully * P + 2 mahoe-wao treeland Treefernland Coastal terrestrial 4,7 Mamaku treefernland gully, hillslope * Mn + 1 Semi-coastal terrestrial 1,2,3,4,5,7,8 gully, hillslope * Mn + 1 Lowland terrestrial 1,2 gully, hillslope * Mn + 1 Forest Semi-coastal terrestrial 7 Hard beech forest hillslope, gorge Mn C Mn 4 Lowland terrestrial 2 hillslope, gorge C C Mn 4 Coastal terrestrial 7 Hard beech-pohutukawa forest hillslope C C - 1 Lowland terrestrial 2 Hard beech-silver beech forest flat and gentle Mn Mn - 2 hillslopes Lowland terrestrial 2 Hard beech-tanekaha-tawa forest hillslope C Mn - 4 Lowland terrestrial 2 Kahikatea-maire tawake forest plateau, alluvial C + - 4 terrace Semi-coastal terrestrial 1,2,4 Kamahi forest hillslope * Mn + 2 Lowland terrestrial 1,2 hillslope * Mn + 2 Lowland terrestrial 2 Kamahi-rewarewa/tawheowheo hillslope * P + 2 forest Coastal terrestrial 7 Kanuka forest hillslope * Mn + 1 Semi-coastal terrestrial 1,2,4,5,7 hillslope * Mn + 2 Lowland terrestrial 2 hillslope * Mn + 2 Semi-coastal terrestrial 2 (Kauri)/podocarps-broadleaved hillslope P P - 1 Lowland terrestrial 2 species forest hillslope P P - 1 1. Pre-Polynesian Bioclimatic Hydrological Land Vegetation Type Landform Former Present Change Protection Zone Element System Extent1 Extent Status (Present Extent) Lowland terrestrial 2 Kauri/tanekaha-tawari hillslope * P - 1 Semi-coastal terrestrial 3 Kauri rickers/tawari forest hillslope * P - 2 Semi-coastal terrestrial 3,4 Mangeao forest hillslope * Mn + 2 Lowland terrestrial 1,2 (Miro)/tawa-kamahi-tawari forest exposed ridge C C - 1 New Coastal terrestrial 7 (Northern rata)-(rimu)/tawa- hillslope C - 4 Semi-coastal terrestrial 1,2,3 kohekohe forest hillslope Mj P - 4 Zealand Lowland 2 (Northern rata)-(rimu)-(miro)/tawa- gully, gorges * C + 1 hinau-kamahi forest Protected Semi-coastal terrestrial 2,4 Pole podocarp forest alluvial terrace * P - 2 Lowland terrestrial 2 hillslope * P - 2 Natural Coastal terrestrial 4,6,7 Pohutukawa forest and treeland hillslope Mj Mn 4 Coastal terrestrial 7 (Northern rata)/tawa-kohekohe forest hillslope * P 0 2 Areas Semi-coastal terrestrial 1,2,3,4,7 hillslope * C + 2 Programme Coastal terrestrial 7 Pohutukawa-kanuka forest hillslope * Mn 0 1 Lowland geothermal 2 Pohutukawa x northern rata-kamahi hillslope, stream P P - 2 forest gully, terrestrial No. Lowland geothermal 2 Pohutukawa x northern rata/ hillslope, P P - 2 37 mingimingi-prostrate kanuka forest terrestrial Lowland terrestrial 2 Porokaiwhiri-mahoe-mamaku-wheki- steep face * P + 2 kamahi-tawari-(miro) forest Lowland terrestrial 2 (Pukatea)-(rimu)/tawa-mamaku- plateau * C + 2 rewarewa forest Lowland terrestrial 2 Pukatea-(rimu)/tawa-pukatea-(hinau) plateau * C + 2 forest Coastal terrestrial 7 Rewarewa/broadleaved species- hillslope * Mn + 2 Semi-coastal terrestrial 1,2,4,7 treefern forest hillslope * Mn + 2 Lowland terrestrial 1,2 hillslope * Mn + 2 Coastal terrestrial 7 Rewarewa/kamahi forest hillslope * P 0 2 Semi-coastal terrestrial 1,2,3,4 hillslope * Mn + 2 257 Lowland terrestrial 1,2 hillslope * Mn + 2 1. Pre-Polynesian 258 Bioclimatic Hydrological Land Vegetation Type Landform Former Present Change Protection Zone Element System Extent1 Extent Status (Present Extent) Semi-coastal terrestrial 3 Rewarewa/kamahi-kohekohe- hillslope * P + 1 mangeao forest Coastal terrestrial 7 Rewarewa/kanuka forest hillslope * P + 2 Semi-coastal terrestrial 2,4,7 hillslope * P Mn 2 Lowland terrestrial 2 hillslope * P + 2 Beadel—Otanewainuku Ecological District PNA survey report Semi-coastal terrestrial 2 Rewarewa/kanuka-kamahi-(mangeao)- steep hillslope, * Mn + 2 (titoki) forest gorge face, ridge Semi-coastal terrestrial 2 Rewarewa-(rimu)/tawa-kamahi forest ridges, hillslope * C + 2 Lowland terrestrial 2 Rewarewa/tawa forest hillslope * C + 2 Lowland terrestrial 2 (Rimu)/tawa-rewarewa-hinau forest hillslope * C + 2 Lowland terrestrial 2 (Rimu)/tawa-rewarewa-hinau-kamahi hillslope * C + 2 forest Lowland terrestrial 2 (Rimu)-(miro)/tawa-rewarewa forest gorges * C + 2 Lowland & 2 (with local hard beech) Semi-coastal Lowland terrestrial 1,2 Rimu/tawa-kamahi-tawari-forest hillslope Mn Mn - 1 Semi-coastal terrestrial 1,2,3 (Rimu)-(miro)-(totara-kotukutuku)- hillslope Mn Mn - 1 Lowland terrestrial 1,2 (tanekaha)/tawa-hinau-rewarewa- hillslope Mn Mn - 1 kamahi-tawari-tawheowheo forest Lowland terrestrial 1,2,3 (Rimu)-(northern rata)/tawa-kamahi- hillslopes, Mj Mn - 4 rewarewa-mangeao forest plateau Lowland terrestrial 2 Rimu-northern rata/tawa-kamahi- hillslope * C + 2 tawari forest Lowland terrestrial 2 Rimu-red beech/tawa-kamahi-tawari- hillslopes, C Mn - 1 hard beech-silver beech forest plateau Lowland terrestrial 2 (Rimu)-(tanekaha)/tawa-kamahi-tawari hillslope * Mn + 2 forest Lowland terrestrial 2 Rimu/tawa-rewarewa-kamahi forest hillslope * Mn + 2 Lowland terrestrial 2 Rimu/tawa-kamahi-hard beech forest hillslope Mn Mn - 2 1. Pre-Polynesian Bioclimatic Hydrological Land Vegetation Type Landform Former Present Change Protection Zone Element System Extent1 Extent Status (Present Extent) Lowland palustrine 1 Rimu/tawari-kamahi/Gahnia plateau * * - 2 terrestrial xanthocarpa forest Lowland terrestrial 1 (Rimu)/tawari-wheki-maire tawake plateau * * 0 1 palustrine forest Lowland terrestrial 2 Silver beech-hard beech-(tawari)-
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