Attachment 6 - Ecological Assessment

habitat factors for that particular species. There may be essential habitat for more than one species on each lot, and areas of
Category A, Category B and Category C can be mapped as Essential Habitat.

Essential habitat is compiled from a combination of species habitat models and buffered species records. Regional
ecosystem is a mandatory essential habitat factor, unless otherwise stated. Essential habitat, for protected wildlife, means an
area of vegetation shown on the Regulated Vegetation Management Map -
       1) that has at least 3 essential habitat factors for the protected wildlife that must include any essential habitat factors
       that are stated as mandatory for the protected wildlife in the essential habitat database. Essential habitat factors are
       comprised of - regional ecosystem (mandatory for most species), vegetation community, altitude, soils, position in
       landscape; or
       2) in which the protected wildlife, at any stage of its life cycle, is located.


If there is no essential habitat mapping shown on the vegetation management supporting map for this lot, and there is no
table in the sections below, it confirms that there is no essential habitat on the lot.

Category A and/or Category B and/or Category C

Table 6: Essential habitat in Category A and/or Category B and/or Category C

 Label     Scientific       Common           NCA Status   Vegetation Community                                  Altitude       Soils                                  Position in Landscape

           Name             Name


 686       Crinia tinnula   wallum froglet   V            Vegetation community is a mandatory essential         Sea level to   Sandy and sandy-alluvial substrates.   None

                                                          habitat factor for this species. Permanent to         150m.

                                                          ephemeral acidic (pH 4.3 - 5.2), soft freshwater in

                                                          Melaleuca (e.g. M. quinquenervia) swamps,

                                                          sedgeland, wet and dry heathland (e.g. Banksia

                                                          robur, Xanthorrhoea) and wallum (Banksia aemula

                                                          shrubland/woodland) areas coastal lowlands on

                                                          sand or sandstone, occasionally in adjacent open

                                                          forest/woodland (e.g. Eucalyptus racemosa,

                                                          Corymbia citriodora) with heathy understorey;

                                                          known to persist in small remnants (<10ha); may be

                                                          found well away from water.


 609       Litoria          wallum           V            Vegetation community is a mandatory essential         Sea level to   Sandy and alluvial substrates.         None

           freycineti       rocketfrog                    habitat factor for this species. Freshwater acidic    200m.

                                                          swamps/lagoons (permanent or temporary still

                                                          water) dominated by sedges (e.g. Baumea and

                                                          Eleocharis spp.) in heathland (e.g.

                                                          Banksia/Xanthorrhoea), wallum (Banksia aemula

                                                          shrubland/woodland) or Melaleuca open forest (e.g.

                                                          M. quinquenervia), and adjacent Eucalyptus

                                                          racemosa forest, also found around acidic coastal

                                                          lakes; on sand and sandstone; can be found well

                                                          away from water during non-breeding season.


 593       Litoria          wallum           V            Vegetation community is a mandatory essential         Sea level to   Sandy substrates.                      Near/in waterbodies.

           olongburensis    sedgefrog                     habitat factor for this species. Well vegetated       200m.

                                                          permanent to ephemeral freshwater swamp,

                                                          sedgeland, lake or creek, e.g. dense reed beds

                                                          (including Baumea, Restio spp.) occasionally with

                                                          Melaleuca quinquenervia or Callistemon

                                                          pachyphyllus, acidic wallum swamps and wallum

                                                          creeks on coastal sand masses; most abundant in

                                                          wallum (Banksia aemula) swamps that seasonally

                                                          flood where they are found year-round; recorded in

                                                          adjacent wet heath, dry heath, Gahnia heath and

                                                          Melaleuca swamp forest/open forest.


 1135      Pezoporus        ground parrot    V            Lowland dry and wet heathland (0.25-1.5m high,        Sea level to   Sand and clay substrates.              Plains and flats.

           wallicus                                       diverse shrubs, sedges & rushes), sedgeplain and      200m.

           wallicus                                       sedgeland (excl. permanent waterbodies); rarely in

                                                          adjacent Banksia (wallum), Hakea or Melaleuca

                                                          shrubland/woodland with heath understorey.




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