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Addendum to the Ecological Character Description Ecological Character Description Addendum Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands Acknowledgement Janet Holmes of the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning provided valuable input to this addendum. Author Citation: Hale, J. and Butcher, R. (2017) Addendum to Ecological Character Description for the Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands Ramsar Site. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning. East Melbourne. Photo credit Edithvale Wetland, Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands. Dr William Steele, Melbourne Water. © The State of Victoria Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning 2017 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. You are free to re-use the work under that licence, on the condition that you credit the State of Victoria as author. The licence does not apply to any images, photographs or branding, including the Victorian Coat of Arms, the Victorian Government logo and the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) logo. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ISBN 978-1-76047-780-6 (pdf/online) Disclaimer This publication may be of assistance to you but the State of Victoria and its employees do not guarantee that the publication is without flaw of any kind or is wholly appropriate for your particular purposes and therefore disclaims all liability for any error, loss or other consequence which may arise from you relying on any information in this publication. Accessibility If you would like to receive this publication in an alternative format, please telephone the DELWP Customer Service Centre on 136186, email [email protected] or via the National Relay Service on 133 677 www.relayservice.com.au. This document is also available on the internet at www.delwp.vic.gov.au. Contents 1. Introduction ................................................................................................................... 2 2. Ramsar criteria .............................................................................................................. 2 2.1 Changes resulting from a review of the Ramsar criteria ....................................................................... 2 2.2 Justification for the site not meeting Ramsar criteria 1 and 3 .............................................................. 3 2.3 Updated justification for Ramsar criteria met ........................................................................................ 4 3. Critical components, processes and services ........................................................... 7 4. Limits of Acceptable Change ....................................................................................... 8 5. Threats to ecological character ................................................................................. 13 6. Changes since listing ................................................................................................. 14 7. References .................................................................................................................. 15 List of tables Table 1. Summary of changes to the criteria met by the Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands compared with DSE (2012). ................................................................................................ ....................................................... 2 Table 2. Palaearctic migratory waders recorded in the Ramsar site and their frequency of occurrence (percentage of years recorded). The eight species that the site is considered to regularly support are highlighted in bold. ........................................................................................................... 5 Table 3. LAC for the Edithvale-Seaford Ramsar Site. ....................................................................................... 9 List of figures Figure 1. Maximum annual abundance of sharp-tailed sandpipers at Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands 1994 to 2015 (data from BirdLife Australia). ...................................................................................................... 6 Figure 2. Maximum annual abundance of Australasian bitterns at Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands 1994 to 2015 (data from BirdLife Australia). ............................................................................................................... 7 Figure 3. Maximum annual abundance of waterbird guilds at Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands 1994 to 2015 (data from BirdLife Australia). Guild membership as defined by Kingsford et al. (2012). ...................... 11 Figure 4. Habitat zones in the Edithvale Wetlands (redrawn from Quinn et al. 2016). ................................... 11 Figure 5. Habitat zones in the Seaford Wetlands (redrawn from Quinn et al. 2016). ..................................... 12 Ecological Character Description Addendum 1 Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands 1. Introduction An ecological character description (ECD) for the Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands was published in 2012 (DSE 2012) but drafted prior to 2008 and did not follow the National Framework and Guidance for Describing the Ecological Character of Australia’s Ramsar Wetlands (Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts 2008). The ECD identifies critical ecosystem services does but not identify critical components and processes and does not contain any Limits of Acceptable Change (LAC) for critical components, processes and services (CPS). The benchmark description of the site, however, is thorough and reflects conditions at the time of listing. This addendum includes out the following amendments to the ECD. • There has been a review of the Criteria for Identifying Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar criteria) met by the site. • A translation has been made of the identified ecosystem services in the ECD to critical CPS following the requirements of the national framework (Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts 2008). • LAC have been developed for the critical CPS. • A list of threats to the Ramsar site has been added. 2. Ramsar criteria 2.1 Changes resulting from a review of the Ramsar criteria This review, based on a more rigorous application of the Ramsar guidance, indicates that the Edithvale- Seaford Wetlands Ramsar Site met three of the current nine criteria at the time of listing in 2001 (criteria 2, 4 and 6) but not criteria 1 and 3 as claimed in DSE (2012) . A check of recent additions of species as threatened under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) has resulted in an additional species being identified as contributing to Criterion 2 being met. Criterion 4 was not considered to have been met in DSE (2012). However, there is evidence that the site met, and continues to meet, this criterion as it supports wetland-dependent species during the critical lifecycle stages of migration and breeding. The changes are summarised in Table 1. Table 1. Summary of changes to the criteria met by the Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands compared with DSE (2012). Criteria met Comments Ramsar listing criteria At listing Currently Changes since DSE (2012) The curlew sandpiper was listed as Criterion 2: A wetland should be critically endangered under the EPBC Act considered internationally important if it in 2015 and was not identified as meeting supports vulnerable, endangered, or Yes Yes this criterion in DSE (2012). The site critically endangered species or threatened meets this criterion for Australasian Bittern ecological communities. and curlew sandpiper. Criterion 4: A wetland should be Not considered met in DSE (2012). The considered internationally important if it site supports wetland-dependent species supports plant and/or animal species at a Yes Yes during the critical lifecycle stages of critical stage in their lifecycles, or provides migration and breeding. refuge during adverse conditions. 2 Ecological Character Description Addendum Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands Criterion 6: A wetland should be considered internationally important if it regularly supports 1% of the individuals in Yes Yes No change a population of one species or subspecies of waterbird. Criterion 1: A wetland should be considered internationally important if it contains a representative, rare, or unique No No example of a natural or near-natural wetland type found within the appropriate biogeographic region. More rigorous application of the Ramsar guidance indicates these criteria were not Criterion 3: A wetland should be met at listing considered internationally important if it supports populations of plant and/or animal No No species important for maintaining the biological diversity of a particular biogeographic region. 2.2 Justification for the site not meeting Ramsar criteria 1 and 3 Criterion 1 A wetland should be considered internationally important if it contains a representative, rare, or unique example of a natural or near-natural wetland type found within the appropriate biogeographic region. The appropriate bioregion for the site is the South East Coast (Victoria) drainage division which includes all of the coastline of Victoria and a small portion of the southern NSW and South Australian coasts (Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts 2008). There is no comprehensive wetland inventory for this bioregion. As such the application of the terms “representative” and “rare” are difficult. In terms of “representative”, advice from the Convention (Ramsar 2009) is that contracting parties should select the “best examples” of each wetland type within
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