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Appendix G Short Range Endemic Invertebrate Survey.Pdf Appendix G Short Range Endemic Invertebrate Survey (Invertebrate Solutions 2018) Short Range Endemic invertebrate desktop assessment for Lot 102 Farrall Road, Midvale, Western Australia. Report by Invertebrate Solutions for Emerge Associates Pty Ltd on Behalf of Peet Stratton Pty Ltd March 2019 Dr Timothy Moulds Director and Principal Ecologist Invertebrate Solutions PO Box 14 Victoria Park, WA 6979 Australia [email protected] www.invertebratesolutions.com Invertebrate Solutions. (2018). Short Range Endemic invertebrate desktop assessment for Lot 102 Farrall Rd, Midvale, Western Australia. Unpublished report to Emerge Associates on behalf of Peet Stratton Pty Ltd, March 2019. Report Number 2018ISJ11_F01_20190304 Prepared for: Emerge Associates Frontispiece: The tree cricket Pachysaga munggai from the Swan Coastal Plain COPYRIGHT: This document has been prepared to the requirements of the client identified above, and no representation is made to any third party. Copyright and any other Intellectual Property associated with the document belongs to Invertebrate Solutions and may not be reproduced without written permission of the Client or Invertebrate Solutions. It may be cited for the purposes of scientific research or other fair use, but it may not be reproduced or distributed to any third party by any physical or electronic means without the express permission of the client for whom it was prepared or Invertebrate Solutions. Lot 102 Farrall Rd, Midvale SRE Desktop Assessment Contents Contents ................................................................................................................................................. iii Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................. v 1. Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1. Purpose of this report .................................................................................................................. 1 1.2. Desktop Study Area ...................................................................................................................... 1 1.3. Documents examined .................................................................................................................. 1 1.4. Introduction to SRE invertebrate fauna ....................................................................................... 2 1.5. Conservation Legislation and Guidance Statements ................................................................... 4 1.6. Report Limitations and Exclusions ............................................................................................... 4 1.7. Assumptions ................................................................................................................................. 5 2. Methods ............................................................................................................................................. 6 2.1 Likelihood of SRE invertebrate occurrence ................................................................................... 6 2.2 Short Range Endemic Status ......................................................................................................... 7 2.3 Potential Impacts to SRE invertebrates ........................................................................................ 7 3. Desktop SRE invertebrate Review ..................................................................................................... 9 3.1 SRE invertebrates of Swan Coastal Plain....................................................................................... 9 3.2 Conservation Significant Fauna in the Desktop Study Area ........................................................ 10 3.3 SRE Habitat in Lot 102, Farrall Rd, Midvale................................................................................. 11 3.4 Potential occurrence of SRE Invertebrates within the Desktop Study Area ............................... 13 3.5 Confirmed SRE species with potential habitat in Lot 102 Farrall Rd, Midvale ............................ 16 3.6 Likely SRE species within Lot 102 Farrall Rd, Midvale ................................................................. 19 3.7 Non SRE Conservation Significant Insects with likely habitat on Lot 102 Farrall Rd, Midvale. ... 20 4. SRE preliminary impact assessment ................................................................................................ 21 4.1 Local impacts during construction .................................................................................... 22 4.2 Regional significance and cumulative impacts ................................................................. 23 5. Conclusions and Recommendations ................................................................................................ 24 5.1 Recommendations ............................................................................................................ 25 6. References ....................................................................................................................................... 26 Appendix 1 ............................................................................................................................................ 28 Department of Parks and Wildlife Conservation Codes (November 2015) ...................................... 28 Appendix 2 ............................................................................................................................................ 29 Department of Environment and Energy – Protected Matters Search Tool .................................... 29 Page iii Lot 102 Farrall Rd, Midvale SRE Desktop Assessment List of Figures Figure 1 Desktop study area and Site location for Lot 102 Farrall Rd, Midvale. 3 Figure 2 Vegetation units and condition for Lot 102 Farrall Rd, Midvale (After Emerge 2017). 12 List of Tables Table 1 SRE species likelihood of occurrence definitions ................................................................ 6 Table 2 Short Range Endemic Status of Species .............................................................................. 7 Table 3 Conservation significant SRE Invertebrates potentially within the Desktop Study Area. 11 Table 4 Vegetation units in Lot 102 Farrall Rd, Midvale and SRE invertebrate habitat potential (after Emerge 2017). ........................................................................................................ 13 Table 5 Potential SRE Invertebrates in WAM databases recorded from within the Desktop Study Area. ................................................................................................................................. 13 Table 6 SRE and conservation significant taxa within Lot 102 Farrall Rd, Midvale ....................... 15 Table 7 Risk of direct impact to SRE invertebrates from the development of Lot 102 Farrall Rd, Midvale. ............................................................................................................................ 22 Table 8 Risk of indirect impact to SRE invertebrates from the development of Lot 102 Farrall Rd, Midvale ............................................................................................................................. 22 List of Plates Plate 1 The P4 listed Graceful Sun-moth from near Alkimos (After GHD 2011.). ......................... 10 Plate 2 Draft Farrall Road Structure Plan showing areas of native vegetation to be preserved. 21 Page iv Lot 102 Farrall Rd, Midvale SRE Desktop Assessment Executive Summary Peet Stratton Pty Ltd (Peet Stratton) proposes to develop Lot 102 Farrall Road, Midvale for urban uses as part of the wider Movida residential development and as broadly outlined in the Farrall Road Local Structure Plan. Due to the potential for impacts to the surface environment, including vegetation clearing and changes to surface hydrology and the potential for subsequent impacts to Short Range Endemic (SRE) invertebrates in the site, Emerge Associates (Emerge) on behalf of Peet Stratton has requested Invertebrate Solutions undertake a desktop review of SRE invertebrates and preliminary impact risk assessment for the proposed development. The broader Desktop Study Area contains 11 Confirmed SRE species (four land snails, four mygalomorph trapdoor spiders, three groundwater amphipods, and one tree cricket), four Likely SRE species (two tree crickets, one mygalomorph trapdoor spider, and one millipede), and two Possible SRE species (one springtail and one midge). The remainder of the species were found to be widespread. Within Lot 102 Farrall Rd, Midvale, there are no Confirmed SRE species that have a High Likelihood of occurrence. The only direct impact to SRE fauna is from vegetation clearing within Lot 102 Farrall Rd, Midvale that will directly remove habitat used by SRE species. Given the sites small size and that the majority of vegetation that is not degraded will be preserved and conserved the likely impact is considered Low and it is considered unlikely that the site would result in local extinction or significant impact to any SRE or conservation significant invertebrate species. The indirect impact of the clearing of native vegetation causing fragmentation of the remaining vegetation may lead to the restriction of genetic flow for SRE species that have limited dispersal capabilities. As the
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