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Communities for Communities Newsletter Issue 18 Communities for Communities Newsletter Issue 18 In this issue: • Ecological Communities Section update • Eucalyptus Woodlands of the Western • Five threatened ecological communities listed Australian Wheatbelt technical workshop under national environment law • Ministerial decision on the Long Lowland • River Murray–Darling to Sea and Macquarie Rivers ecological community Marshes disallowance • Two recovery plans adopted by the Minister • Alpine Sphagnum bogs and associated fens • Conferences and events in 2014 recovery planning Ecological Communities The fact sheet and further information on the ecological community is available at: Section update www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/ • Our new website went live in mid-2013. The site publicshowcommunity.pl?id=126&status=Endangered features a new map function that gives an overview • Conservation Advices have recently been approved for of ecological communities and their locations across four existing listed ecological communities: Australia and answers some common questions. You can – Blue Gum High Forest of the Sydney visit the new website here: Basin Bioregion www.environment.gov.au/topics/biodiversity/threate – Brigalow (Acacia harpophylla dominant and ned-species-ecological-communities/threatened-ecolo co-dominant) gical-communities – Swamps of the Fleurieu Peninsula • A new fact sheet on the recently-listed Proteaceae – Turpentine-Ironbark Forest in the Sydney Dominated Kwongkan Shrubland ecological community Basin Bioregion is now available on the Department’s website. The fact sheet outlines: The Conservation Advices are available at: – what an ecological community is www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/ – why it is nationally protected publiclookupcommunities.pl – what the listing aims to achieve – what the listing means for people in the region. BIO263.0414 environment.gov.au Newly listed ecological communities Since the last issue of this newsletter, five new ecological communities have been listed under national environment law, which are: • Scott River Ironstone Association • Subtropical and Temperate Coastal Saltmarsh • Eyre Peninsula Blue Gum Woodland • Proteaceae Dominated Kwongkan Shrubland • Kangaroo Island Narrow-leaved Mallee (Eucalyptus cneorifolia) Woodland These additions bring the total number of nationally listed ecological communities to 66. Summaries of the five new listings can be found on the following pages. Further information on all these ecological communities, including full conservation advice, detailed descriptions, threat analyses, distribution maps, priority research and conservation actions, can be found on the Department’s website at: www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publiclookupcommunities.pl. Scott River Ironstone Association Key threats: • land clearing Date listed: May 2013 • fragmentation Category: Endangered • grazing by native and non-native species Phytophthora cinnamomi Location: Occurs on the Scott Coastal Plain in the • dieback due to south-west of Western Australia. • weed invasion Descriptive features: Exists as low to tall seasonally-flooded Other features: Contains 54 orchid species. Provides habitat shrubland or heathland, occurring on shallow soils over to the three plant and four animal species below that are massive ironstone formations. The shallowness of the soils, listed as threatened nationally: the iron content, and seasonal flooding and waterlogging • Banksia nivea subsp. ulinginosa (swamp honeypot) are all thought to heavily influence the assemblage of • Darwinia ferricola (Scott River darwinia) plant species. Vegetation type is generally heathlands and • Lambertia orbifolia subsp. Scott River Plains (Scott River low to tall shrublands, with dominant species depending roundleaf honeysuckle) on the degree of waterlogging. Patches of the ecological community may be dominated by Melaleuca preissiana, • forest red-tailed black-cockatoo Hakea tuberculata, Kunzea micrantha or Melaleuca incana • Baudin’s black-cockatoo subsp. Gingilup while Loxocarya magna typically dominates • Carnaby’s black-cockatoo the understorey. • Chuditch. Further information: www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/ publicshowcommunity.pl?id=123&status=Endangered Vegetation of the Scott River Ironstone Association © Department of Parks and Wildlife Western Australia environment.gov.au Subtropical and Temperate • invasion by exotic weeds Coastal Saltmarsh • rising sea levels • climate change Date listed: August 2013 • mangrove encroachment Category: Vulnerable • pollution Location: From Curtis Island in south eastern Queensland, Other features: This ecological community provides along the coasts of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania extensive ecosystem services and supports a wide range of and South Australia to Shark Bay in south-western Western insects, fish, birds and insectivorous bats. It is particularly Australia. Also encompasses coastal saltmarsh occurring on important for fish and prawn species as it provides shelter islands within this geographic range. and a nursery habitat for juveniles. Additionally, coastal saltmarsh ecosystems are considered to be one of the most Descriptive features: Found on the sandy/muddy shores efficient at capturing carbon in the world. of coastal areas that are subject to regular or intermittent tidal influence. Vegetation found within the community Note: Ecological communities listed as vulnerable do not is salt-tolerant and dominated by low herbs, shrubs/ currently trigger the referral provisions of the EPBC Act. chenopods, sedges and grasses. Non-vascular plants However, listing this ecological community significantly including algae, diatoms and cyanobacterial mats are increases awareness and provides valuable information and also present. incentive to support its management and recovery. Key threats: Further information: • land clearing www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/ • fragmentation publicshowcommunity.pl?id=118&status=Vulnerable • infilling • tidal restriction Hindmarsh Island Saltmarsh © Matt White environment.gov.au Eyre Peninsula Blue Gum Woodland Date listed: August 2013 Category: Endangered Location: Endemic to the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. The ecological community occurs in the Koppio Hills, Cleve Hills and west of the Marble Range. It is mainly restricted to well-drained, moderate to high fertility soils and is typically associated with sheltered valleys, lower hill slopes and watercourses. Descriptive features: Typically woodland to open forest with a canopy dominated by Eucalyptus petiolaris (blue gum). Mid-layer varies from open to dense in response to soil moisture and management history and consists of native sclerophyllous shrubs and small trees. Ground layer is variable in development and composition, ranging from sparse to a thick layer of native grasses and other herbs. Ground layer flora typically is dominated by one or more of the graminoid genera. Key threats: • land clearance and disturbance • invasive species Eyre Peninsula Blue Gum Woodland northern distribution, Cleve • salinisation © Anthony Hoffman • dieback due to Phytophthora cinnamomi • inappropriate fire regimes Other features: Provides habitat for three threatened plant species that are listed nationally and numerous native plant and animal species, including: • Acacia pinguifolia (fat-leaved wattle) • Pultenaea trichophylla (tufted bush-pea) • Olearia pannosa subsp. pannosa (silver daisy-bush) • musk lorikeet • yellow-tailed black-cockatoo • diamond firetail • western pygmy-possum • numerous insectivorous bats. Further information: www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/ publicshowcommunity.pl?id=124&status=Endangered environment.gov.au Proteaceae Dominated Other features: Provides habitat for 45 plant and 15 animal Kwongkan Shrubland species that are listed as nationally threatened such as: • Daviesia glossosema (maroon-flowered daviesia) Date listed: February 2014 • Gastrolobium luteifolium (yellow-leafed gastrolobium) Category: Endangered • Scaevola macrophylla (large-flowered scaevola) • the dibbler Location: Found on the south coast of Western Australia, • heath mouse from Albany in the east to Cape Arid in the west. • Carnaby’s black cockatoo Descriptive features: Kwongkan shrubland that ranges • western bristlebird from sparse to dense thickets, where Proteaceaeous species • western ground parrot form a significant component (e.g. plants from the genera Adenanthos, Banksia, Grevillea, Hakea, Isopogon • western whipbird and Lambertia). Proteaceae species present are variable Further information: across the region. The ecological community is typical of www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/ vegetation within some of the reserves across the region, publicshowcommunity.pl?id=126&status=Endangered such as Stirling Range National Park, Fitzgerald River National Park and Cape Le Grand National Park. Key threats: • land clearing • fragmentation • changing fire regimes • dieback due to Phytophthora cinnamomi • invasive species • climate change Kwongkan shrublands at East Mount Barren, Fitzgerald River National Park © Department of the Environment environment.gov.au Kangaroo Island Narrow-leaved Key threats: Mallee (Eucalyptus cneorifolia) • land clearing Woodland • fragmentation • changing fire regimes Date listed: May 2014 • invasive weeds Category: Critically Endangered Other features: Provides habitat for at least 6 plant species that are listed as nationally threatened and several that are Location: Limited to the eastern half of Kangaroo Island,
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