2021-06-08 P&E Agenda - Item 7 - Attachment 1 - Noosa Bushland Reserve Strategic Fire Management Plan 2021

8.3    Fire sensitive vegetation communities
Fire sensitive are considered to be those vegetation communities which are sensitive to fire and may
withstand significant impacts from the occasional fire along their perimeter or, in a catastrophic
landscape fire, be significantly impacted upon by such a fire. The period for reinstatement of a pre-
fire community with a similar biodiversity status may be many years depending on the recruitment of
both flora and fauna species back into an area which once contains a fire-sensitive community.

The table below contains a list of fire-sensitive vegetation communities that have been described
within Noosa LGA.

                                                                                                        Area
                                    Non- fire Adapted BVG
                                                                                                        (ha)
 2a         Complex evergreen mesophyll-notophyll vine forest frequently with Araucaria               8.1
            cunninghamii (hoop pine) from foothills to ranges. (land zones 11, 12, 8) (WET, SEQ,
            CQC) (Tracey 1982 2a)
 4a         Notophyll and mesophyll vine forest with feather or fan palms in alluvia and in swampy    1.04
            situations on ranges or within coastal san masses. (land zones 3, 11, 12, 2) (SEQ,
            WET, CQC, CYP) (Tracey 1982 2b,3b, 3c)
 4b         Evergreen to semi-deciduous mesophyll to notophyll vine forest, frequently with           62.79
            Archontophoenix spp. (palms) fringing streams. (land zones 3, [10]) (CYP, SEQ,
            WET, CQC, GUP) (Tracey 1982 1c)
 5a         Araucarian notophyll/microphyll and microphyll vine forests of southern coastal           38.84
            bioregions. (land zones 8, 11, 5, 9) (SEQ)
 35a        Closed forests and low closed forests dominated by mangroves. (land zone 1) (CYP,         153.11
            GUP, BRB, SEQ, WET, CQC)
 35b        Bare saltpans ± areas of Tecticornia spp. (samphire) sparse forbland and/or               28.08
            Xerochloa imberbis or Sporobolus virginicus (sand couch) tussock grassland. (land
            zone 1, [3]) (GUP, BRB, CYP, SEQ, CQC, [WET])
 TOTAL      11.5% of Vegetation Types                                                                 292.02




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