08/1128 - Information Response to Biodiversity Items & Ecological Impact Items - Place Designs [As Published] · 132008.1128

Community 2 ~ Closed Wet Heath/Sedgeland on Coastal Dunes

  
  
    

    

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this association represents ombination of vegetation types and is characteristic
stem 12.2.15 and 12.2.12. (PLATE 2)

  

   
 

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A representative list of flora species is contained in Appendix C.

 

The community is generally devoid of non-indigenous flora (weeds), with most notable incursion
occurring along a number of internal trails. Groundsel Bush occurs infrequently within the north -
western pocket of vegetation and but frequently in association with Typha and Common Lantana within
Burgess Creek. Representation of all strata was recorded and the wet heath component of the
community is regarded as relatively intact and would most likely satisfy the criterion for remnant status
This concurs with current EPA mapping of the investigation area. The sedgeland component of the
community is generally far removed from the edge of the site and is instead associated with floodplains
of Burgess Creek. The community appears to have been markedly altered through a combination of
Nutrient pollution and increased pH levels.

 

    

Supplementary surveys performed in September 2008, identified a natural spring or soak, which
was _not identified during the preliminary survey effort due to marked fire damage. The area
comprises less then 500m2_and was dominated by a dense cover of Leptospermum liversidgei
(swamp may), above a dense cover of Empodisma_minus (spreading roperush), Sporadanthus
interruptus and Schoenus scabripes (a bogrush) [Community 2b] Figure BCRO1-7/A

Schoenus scabripes is listed as rare under the Nature Conservation (Wildlife) Regulation 2006.
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PLATE 2 - Closed or Wet Heath/Sedgeland

 

 

Ecological Assessment Report (BCRO2 PLACE Environmental