Regional Ecosystems Corresponding to Ecological Communities Listed Under the Commonwealth EPBC Act

Regional ecosystems corresponding to ecological communities listed under the Commonwealth EPBC Act

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) - Seventeen ecological communities listed under the Commonwealth EPBC Act occur in Queensland. The table below provides those regional ecosystems that are included in these ecological communities. For each community the link to the specific details on the Commonwealth’s Species Profile and Threats (SPRAT) Database should be consulted for a description of the ecological community, key diagnostic characteristics and condition thresholds.

Brigalow ( Acacia harpophylla dominant and co-dominant) Endangered Details of Brigalow

Regional ecosystem RE description Comments/ limits

11.11.14 Acacia harpophylla open forest on deformed and metamorphosed sediments and interbedded volcanics

11.12.21 Acacia harpophylla open forest on igneous rocks. Colluvial lower slopes

11.3.1 Acacia harpophylla and/or Casuarina cristata open forest on alluvial plains

11.4.10 Eucalyptus populnea or E. woollsiana, Acacia harpophylla, Casuarina cristata open forest to woodland on margins of Cainozoic clay plains

11.4.3 Acacia harpophylla and/or Casuarina cristata shrubby open forest on Cainozoic clay plains

11.4.7 Eucalyptus populnea with Acacia harpophylla and/or Casuarina cristata open forest to woodland on Cainozoic clay plains

11.4.8 Eucalyptus cambageana woodland to open forest with Acacia harpophylla or A. argyrodendron on Cainozoic clay plains

11.4.9 Acacia harpophylla shrubby open forest to woodland with Terminalia oblongata on Cainozoic clay plains

11.5.16 Acacia harpophylla and/or Casuarina cristata open forest in depressions on Cainozoic sand plains/remnant surfaces

11.9.1 Acacia harpophylla-Eucalyptus cambageana open forest to woodland on fine-grained sedimentary rocks

11.9.5 Acacia harpophylla and/or Casuarina cristata open forest on fine-grained sedimentary rocks 11.9.6 Acacia melvillei +/- A. harpophylla open forest on fine-grained sedimentary rocks

12.12.26 Acacia harpophylla open forest on Mesozoic to Proterozoic igneous rocks

12.8.23 Acacia harpophylla open forest on Cainozoic igneous rocks

12.9-10.6 Acacia harpophylla open forest on sedimentary rocks

6.4.2 Casuarina cristata +/- Acacia harpophylla open forest on clay plains

Coastal Swamp Oak (Casuarina glauca) Forest of New South Wales and South East Queensland Endangered

Details of Coastal Swamp Oak

Regional ecosystem RE description Comment/ limits

12.1.1 Casuarina glauca woodland on margins of marine clay plains

Melaleuca quinquenervia, Casuarina glauca +/- Eucalyptus Only parts dominated by C. 12.3.20 tereticornis, E. siderophloia open forest on low coastal alluvial glauca plains

Coolibah - Black Box Woodlands of the Darling Riverine Plains and the Brigalow Belt South Bioregions Endangered Details of Coolibah-Black Box

Regional ecosystem RE description Comment/ limits

11.3.3 Eucalyptus coolabah woodland on alluvial plains Brigalow Belt South bioregion only

11.3.16 Eucalyptus largiflorens +/- Acacia cambagei +/- A. harpophylla Brigalow Belt South woodland to low open woodland on alluvial plains bioregion only

11.3.15 Eucalyptus coolabah, Acacia stenophylla, Muehlenbeckia Brigalow Belt South florulenta fringing woodland on alluvial plains bioregion only

11.3.37 Eucalyptus coolabah fringing woodland on alluvial plains Brigalow Belt South bioregion only

11.3.28 Eucalyptus coolabah +/- Casuarina cristata open woodland Brigalow Belt South on alluvial plains bioregion only Littoral Rainforest and Coastal Vine Thickets of Eastern Australia Critically Endangered Detail of littoral rainforests

Regional ecosystem RE description Comment/ limits

12.2.2 Microphyll/notophyll vine forest on beach ridges within 2km of coastline

3.12.20 Evergreen notophyll vine forest dominated by Welchiodendron within 2km of coastline longivalve on headlands

3.2.1 Evergreen notophyll vine forest in coastal dunefield systems within 2km of coastline

3.2.11 Low microphyll vine forest on coastal dunes and beach ridges within 2km of coastline

3.2.12 Araucarian microphyll vine forest on coastal dunefields within 2km of coastline and beach ridges

3.2.13 Evergreen notophyll vine forest on beach ridges on the east within 2km of coastline coast

3.2.28 Evergreen notophyll vine forest on beach ridges on coral within 2km of coastline atolls, shingle cays and sand cays

3.2.29 Pisonia grandis low closed forest restricted to a few within 2km of coastline scattered sand cays

3.2.31 Premna serratifolia closed scrub on coral atolls, shingle cays within 2km of coastline and sand cays

7.12.11d Low notophyll vine forest and thicket of exposed rocky within 2km of coastline granite coastal headlands

7.2.1 Mesophyll vine forest on beach ridges and sand plains of beach within 2km of coastline origin

7.2.2 Notophyll to microphyll vine forest on sands of beach origin within 2km of coastline

7.2.5a Simple mesophyll to notophyll vine forest on sands of beach within 2km of coastline origin, with Syzygium forte subsp. forte, Buchanania arborescens, Pleiogynium timorense, Dillenia alata, Litsea fawcettiana, and Chionanthus ramiflora

7.2.6b Evergreen notophyll vine thicket on aeolian dunes, with Acacia within 2km of coastline crassicarpa, Elaeodendron melanocarpum, Aglaia elaeagnoidea and Drypetes deplanchei

7.11.3b Terminalia arenicola and Acacia polystachya low closed within 2km of coastline forest on coastal metamorphic headlands 8.2.2 Semi-evergreen microphyll vine thicket to vine forest, on coastal within 2km of coastline dunes

7.2.2a Notophyll vine forests, often with Acacia emergents, on within 2km of coastline dune sands

7.2.2b Blepharocarya involucrigera, Atractocarpus sessilis, Choriceras within 2km of coastline tricorne, Endiandra glauca, Cyclophyllum multiflorum, Syzygium banksii, Polyscias australiana, Terminalia muelleri and Dillenia alata closed scrub to closed forest on dune sands

7.2.2c Simple notophyll vine forest dominated by Blepharocarya within 2km of coastline involucrigera on dune sands at sites subject to episodic disturbance or a seral stage of recovery from a single event or period of disturbance

7.2.2d Acacia mangium closed forest on dune sands, with A. within 2km of coastline crassicarpa, Hibiscus tiliaceus, Cupaniopsis anacardioides, Planchonella obovata, Breynia cernua, Morinda citrifolia and Terminalia muelleri

7.2.2e Low notophyll vine thicket on transported coastal cobble within 2km of coastline and boulder ridges

7.2.2f Microphyll vine thicket occurring in clumps/groves on coastal within 2km of coastline foredunes. Inter-grove areas are occupied by sparse grasses and herbs

7.2.2g Vine forest with Hibiscus tiliaceus and Calophyllum australianum within 2km of coastline within intermittently inundated narrow dune swales

7.2.2h Semi-deciduous notophyll vine forest on dune sands. Often within 2km of coastline includes Melia azedarach, Pleiogynium timorense, Ganophyllum falcatum, Falcataria toona, Ficus racemosa, Argyrodendron polyandrum and Alstonia scholaris

7.2.1a Complex mesophyll or mesophyll vine forest on sands of beach within 2km of coastline origin

7.2.1b Mesophyll vine forest with Intsia bijuga, Beilschmiedia obtusifolia within 2km of coastline and Palaquium galactoxylon, on sands of beach origin

7.2.1c Closed forest with Calophyllum inophyllum, Terminalia within 2km of coastline arenicola, Dillenia alata, Myristica insipida, Planchonella obovata, Millettia pinnata and Hibiscus tiliaceus on sands of beach origin

7.2.1d Swampy mesophyll vine forest with Archontophoenix alexandrae within 2km of coastline in the sub-canopy, on sands of beach origin

7.2.1e Simple Notophyll vine forest with Syzygium angophoroides, within 2km of coastline on sands of beach origin 7.2.1f Simple notophyll vine forest with Blepharocarya involucrigera, within 2km of coastline Acacia celsa, Flindersia bourjotiana, Syzygium angophoroides, Dillenia alata, Grevillea baileyana, Syzygium kuranda, Calophyllum sil. Sands of beach origin

7.2.1g Mesophyll vine forest with Archontophoenix alexandrae, within 2km of coastline on sands of beach origin

7.2.1h Mesophyll vine forest with Licuala ramsayi, on sands of within 2km of coastline beach origin

7.2.1i Mesophyll vine forest, on sands of beach origin within 2km of coastline

3.2.1a Evergreen notophyll vine forest on coastal dunes and within 2km of coastline beach ridges

3.2.1b Evergreen notophyll vine forest on coastal dunes and within 2km of coastline beach ridges

Mabi Forest (Complex Notophyll Vine Forest 5b)

Critically Endangered

Details of Mabi Forest

Regional ecosystem RE description Comment/ limits

7.8.3 Complex semi-evergreen notophyll vine forest of uplands on basalt

7.3.37 Complex semi-evergreen notophyll vine forest of uplands on alluvium

Natural Grasslands of the Queensland Central Highlands and the northern Fitzroy Basin Endangered Details of natural grasslands

Regional ecosystem RE description Comment/ limits

11.11.17 Dichanthium sericeum grassland on old sedimentary rocks subregions 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, with varying degrees of metamorphism and folding 13, 15, 23 of the Brigalow Belt bioregion

11.4.11 Dichanthium sericeum, Astrebla spp. and patchy Acacia subregions 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, harpophylla, Eucalyptus coolabah on Cainozoic clay plains 13, 15, 23 of the Brigalow Belt bioregion

11.4.4 Dichanthium spp., Astrebla spp. grassland on Cainozoic clay subregions 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, plains 13, 15, 23 of the Brigalow Belt bioregion

11.8.11 Dichanthium sericeum grassland on Cainozoic igneous rocks subregions 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 23 of the Brigalow Belt bioregion 11.9.12 Dichanthium sericeum grassland with clumps of Acacia subregions 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, harpophylla on fine-grained sedimentary rocks 13, 15, 23 of the Brigalow Belt bioregion

11.9.3 Dichanthium spp., Astrebla spp. grassland on fine- subregions 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, grained sedimentary rocks 13, 15, 23 of the Brigalow Belt bioregion

11.3.21 Dichanthium sericeum and/or Astrebla spp. grassland on alluvial subregions 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, plains. Cracking clay soils 13, 15, 23 of the Brigalow Belt bioregion

Natural grasslands on basalt and fine-textured alluvial plains of northern New South Wales and southern Queensland Critically Endangered Details of Natural grasslands in southern Queensland

Regional ecosystem RE description Comment/ limits

11.3.21 Dichanthium sericeum and/or Astrebla spp. grassland on alluvial subregions 31, 32, 33, 34, plains. Cracking clay soils 35, 36 of the Brigalow Belt bioregion

11.3.24 Themeda avenacea grassland on alluvial plains. Basalt subregions 31, 32, 33, 34, derived soils 35, 36 of the Brigalow Belt bioregion

New England Peppermint (Eucalyptus nova-anglica) Grassy Woodlands Critically endangered Details of NE Peppermint

Regional ecosystem RE description Comment/ limits

13.3.2 Eucalyptus nova-anglica open forest on alluvial plains

Poplar Box Grassy Woodlands on Alluvial Plains Endangered

Details of Poplar Box

Regional ecosystem RE description Comment/ limits

11.3.2 Eucalyptus populnea woodland on alluvial plains

Eucalyptus populnea woodland with Acacia harpophylla and/or 11.3.17 Casuarina cristata on alluvial plains

Eucalyptus populnea with Acacia harpophylla and/or Casuarina 11.4.7 cristata open forest to woodland on Cainozoic clay plains

11.4.12 Eucalyptus populnea woodland on Cainozoic clay plains

12.3.10 Eucalyptus populnea woodland on alluvial plains Semi-evergreen vine thickets of the Brigalow Belt (North and South) and Nandewar Bioregions Endangered Details of SEVT

Regional ecosystem RE description Comment/ limits

11.11.18 Semi-evergreen vine thicket on old sedimentary rocks with varying degrees of metamorphism and folding

11.2.3 Microphyll vine forest ("beach scrub") on sandy beach ridges and dune swales

11.3.11 Semi-evergreen vine thicket on alluvial plains

11.4.1 Semi-evergreen vine thicket +/- Casuarina cristata on Cainozoic clay plains

11.5.15 Semi-evergreen vine thicket on Cainozoic sand plains/remnant surfaces

11.8.13 Semi-evergreen vine thicket and microphyll vine forest on Cainozoic igneous rocks

11.8.3 Semi-evergreen vine thicket on Cainozoic igneous rocks

11.8.6 Macropteranthes leichhardtii thicket on Cainozoic igneous rocks

11.9.4 Semi-evergreen vine thicket or Acacia harpophylla with a semi- evergreen vine thicket understorey on fine-grained sedimentary rocks

11.9.8 Macropteranthes leichhardtii thicket on fine grained sedimentary rocks

Subtropical and Temperate Coastal Saltmarsh Vulnerable Details of Subtropical and Temperate Coastal Saltmarsh

Regional ecosystem RE description Comment/ limits

12.1.2 Saltpan vegetation including grassland, herbland and south of the Tropic of sedgeland on marine clay plains Capricorn (23.5oS) Swamp Tea-tree (Melaleuca irbyana) Forest of South-east Queensland Critically Endangered Details OF Swamp Tea-tree

Regional ecosystem RE description Comment/ limits

Eucalyptus moluccana and/or Eucalyptus tereticornis and E. 12.3.19 crebra open forest to woodland, with a sparse to mid-dense (was 12.3.3b) understorey of Melaleuca irbyana on alluvial plains

12.3.18 Melaleuca irbyana low open forest on alluvial plains (was 12.3.3c)

12.9-10.11 Melaleuca irbyana low open forest on sedimentary rocks

12.9-10.27 Corymbia citriodora subsp. variegata and/or E. moluccana, E. (was 12.9-10.11a) tereticornis, E. crebra open forest with Melaleuca irbyana understorey on sedimentary rocks

Weeping Myall Woodlands Endangered Details of Weeping Myall

Regional ecosystem RE description Comment/ limits

11.3.2 Eucalyptus populnea woodland on alluvial plains minor component of this regional ecosystem

11.3.28 Eucalyptus coolabah +/- Casuarina cristata open woodland minor component of this on alluvial plains regional ecosystem

White Box-Yellow Box-Blakely's Red Gum Grassy Woodland and Derived Native Grassland Critically Endangered Details of white box-yellow box-red gum

Regional ecosystem RE description Comment/ limits

11.3.23 Eucalyptus conica, E. nobilis, E. tereticornis, Angophora floribunda on alluvial plains. Basalt derived soils

11.8.2a Eucalyptus tereticornis and E. melliodora occurring on low hills

11.8.8 Eucalyptus albens, E. crebra woodland on Cainozoic igneous rocks

11.9.9a Eucalyptus albens +/- E. crebra +/- E. tereticornis +/- Callitris baileyi

12.8.14 Eucalyptus eugenioides +/- E. biturbinata, E. melliodora minor component of this woodland on Cainozoic igneous rocks regional ecosystem 12.8.16 Eucalyptus crebra +/- E. melliodora, E. tereticornis woodland on minor component of this Cainozoic igneous rocks regional ecosystem

12.8.17 Eucalyptus melanophloia +/- E. crebra, E. tereticornis, Corymbia minor component of this tessellaris woodland on Cainozoic igneous rocks regional ecosystem

13.11.3 Eucalyptus crebra woodland on metamorphics minor component of this regional ecosystem

13.11.4 Eucalyptus melanophloia woodland on metamorphics minor component of this regional ecosystem

13.11.8 Eucalyptus melliodora and/or Eucalyptus microcarpa/ E. moluccana woodland on metamorphics

13.12.8 Eucalyptus melliodora and/or E. moluccana/ E. microcarpa and/or E. conica woodland on igneous rocks

13.12.9 Eucalyptus blakelyi and/or E. caliginosa woodland to open forest on igneous rocks

13.3.1 Eucalyptus blakelyi woodland on alluvial plains

13.3.4 Eucalyptus conica, E. microcarpa, E. melliodora woodland on alluvial plains

Broad leaf tea-tree (Melaleuca viridiflora) woodlands in high rainfall coastal north Queensland Endangered Details of M. viridiflora

Regional ecosystem RE description Comment/ limits

7.3.8a Melaleuca viridiflora open forest to open woodland, on poorly drained alluvial plains. Includes areas of natural invasion onto former grasslands

7.3.8b Melaleuca viridiflora open forest to open woodland with eucalypt emergents (or sparse eucalypt overstorey) of species such as Corymbia clarksoniana, Eucalyptus platyphylla, Lophostemon suaveolens and E. drepanophylla. Poorly drained alluvial plains

7.3.8c Melaleuca viridiflora, and Lophostemon suaveolens open forest to woodland, on poorly drained alluvial plains

7.3.8d Melaleuca viridiflora, Lophostemon suaveolens and Allocasuarina littoralis open shrubland, on poorly drained alluvial plains

7.5.4g Melaleuca viridiflora woodland on laterite

8.3.2 Melaleuca viridiflora woodland on seasonally inundated alluvial plains with impeded drainage 8.5.2a Melaleuca viridiflora +/- Allocasuarina luehmannii woodland on Tertiary sand plains

8.5.2c Melaleuca viridiflora and M. nervosa woodland on Tertiary sand plains

8.5.6 Melaleuca viridiflora +/- Allocasuarina littoralis woodland on Tertiary sand plains

Lowland Rainforest of Subtropical Australia Critically Endangered Details of subtropical Lowland Rf

Regional ecosystem RE description Comment/ limits

12.3.1a Complex notophyll vine forest on alluvial plains Patches that meet the key (was 12.3.1) diagnostic characteristics and the condition thresholds

12.3.16 Complex notophyll to microphyll vine forest on alluvial plains (was 12.3.1)

12.3.17 Simple notophyll fringing forest usually dominated by (was 12.3.1) Waterhousea floribunda

12.5.13 Microphyll to notophyll vine forest +/- Araucaria cunninghamii on Patches that meet the key remnant Tertiary surfaces diagnostic characteristics and the condition thresholds

12.8.3 Complex notophyll vine forest on Cainozoic igneous rocks. Patches that meet the key Altitude <600m diagnostic characteristics and the condition thresholds

12.8.4 Complex notophyll vine forest with Araucaria spp. on Cainozoic Patches that meet the key igneous rocks diagnostic characteristics and the condition thresholds

12.8.13 Araucarian complex microphyll vine forest on Cainozoic igneous Patches that meet the key rocks diagnostic characteristics and the condition thresholds

12.11.1 Simple notophyll vine forest often with abundant Patches that meet the key Archontophoenix cunninghamiana (gully vine forest) diagnostic characteristics on metamorphics +/- interbedded volcanics and the condition thresholds

12.11.10 Notophyll vine forest +/- Araucaria cunninghamii Patches that meet the key on metamorphics +/- interbedded volcanics diagnostic characteristics and the condition thresholds 12.12.1 Simple notophyll vine forest usually with abundant Patches that meet the key Archontophoenix cunninghamiana (gully vine forest) diagnostic characteristics on Mesozoic to Proterozoic igneous rocks and the condition thresholds

12.12.16 Notophyll vine forest on Mesozoic to Proterozoic igneous rocks Patches that meet the key diagnostic characteristics and the condition thresholds

12.5.13b Microphyll to notophyll vine forest on coastal remnant Tertiary surfaces

The community of native Artesian Basin species dependent on natural discharge of groundwater from the Great Artesian Basin Endangered Details of GAB springs

Regional ecosystem RE description Comment/ limits

Includes 2.3.39, 4.3.22, Springs The location of GAB listed springs are 5.3.23, 6.3.23, 10.3.31, available in the "Queensland Wetland Data - 11.3.22. Wetland points", on WetlandInfo and identified by the field "Region" = GAB.