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,