2021-06-17 OM Agenda - Item 2 - Attachment 1 - Draft Noosa Bushland Reserve Strategic Management Plan 2021-2026

Figure 7 - Reserve representation by Broad Vegetation Groups

Broad Vegetation BVG Description                                                                                                      Total Area
     Group                                                                                                                               (ha)

      2a         Complex evergreen mesophyll-notophyll vine forest frequently with Araucaria cunninghamii (hoop pine) from               8.16
                 foothills to ranges. (land zones 11, 12, 8) (WET, SEQ, CQC) (Tracey 1982 2a)
      4a         Notophyll and mesophyll vine forest with feather of fan palms in alluvia and in swampy situations on ranges or          1.04
                 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 Archontophoenix spp.                   62.79
                 (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 bioregions. (land zones 8, 11,         38.84
                 5, 9) (SEQ)
      8a         Wet tall open forest dominated by species such as Eucalyptus grandis (flooded gum) or E. saligna, E. resinifera        333.2
                 (red mahogany), Lophostemon confertus (brush box), Syncarpia glomulifera (turpentine), E. laevopinea
                 (silvertop stringybark). Contains a well-developed understorey of rainforest components, including ferns and
                 palms, or the understorey may be dominated by sclerophyll shrubs. (land zones 12, 8, 10, 11, 3, 5, 9, 2) (SEQ,
                 WET, BRB, CQC, [NET])
      8b         Moist open forests to tall open forests mostly dominated by Eucalyptus pilularis (blackbutt) on coastal sands,         76.66
                 sub-coastal sandstones and basalt ranges. Also includes tall open forests dominated by E. montivaga, E.
                 obliqua (messmate stringybark) and E. campanulata (New England ash). (land zones 12, 9, 11, 2, 5, 8) (SEQ,
                 [CQC])
      9a         Moist eucalypt open forests to woodlands dominated by a variety of species including Eucalyptus siderophloia           22.05
                 (red ironbark), E. propinqua (small-fruited grey gum), E. acmenoides (narrow-leaved white stringybark), E.
                 microcorys (tallowwood), E. carnea (broad-leaved white mahogany), E. tindaliae (Queensland white
                 stringybark), Corymbia intermedia (pink bloodwood), Lophostemon confertus (brush box). (land zones 11, 12, 9-
                 10, 5, 8) (SEQ)
      9f         Woodlands dominated by Corymbia spp. e.g.: C. intermedia (pink bloodwood), C. tessellaris (Moreton Bay ash)            95.04
                 and/or Eucalyptus spp. such as E. tereticornis (blue gum), frequently with Banksia spp., Acacia spp. and Callitris
                 columellaris (Bribie Island pine) on coastal dunes and beach ridges. (land zone 2) (SEQ)
      9g         Moist to dry woodlands to open forest dominated by stringybarks or mahoganies such as Eucalyptus tindaliae             377.44
                 (Queensland white stringybark), E. latisinensis (white mahogany), E. acmenoides (narrow-leaved white
                 stringybark); or E. racemosa (scribbly gum) or E. seeana or E. tereticornis (blue gum) and Corymbia intermedia
                 (pink bloodwood). (land zone 5, 12, 9-10, 2, 11, [8, 3]) (SEQ)
      9h         Dry woodlands dominated by species such as Eucalyptus acmenoides (narrow-leaved white stringybark) (or E.               5.2
                 portuensis), E. tereticornis (blue gum), Angophora leiocarpa (rusty gum), Corymbia trachyphloia (yellow
                 bloodwood) or C. intermedia (pink bloodwood), and often ironbarks including E. crebra (narrow-leaved red
                 ironbark) or E. fibrosa (dusky-leaved ironbark). A heathy shrub layer is frequently present. On undulating to
                 hilly terrain. (land zones 12, 9-10, 11, [8, 5]) (SEQ, BRB)
      10b        Moist open forests to woodlands dominated by Corymbia citriodora (spotted gum). (land zones 12, 11, 9, 5, 8)            10.3
                 (SEQ, CQC, EIU, WET)
      12a        Dry woodlands to open woodlands dominated by ironbarks such as Eucalyptus decorticans (gum-topped                       1.73
                 ironbark), E. fibrosa subsp. nubila (blue-leaved ironbark), or E. crebra (narrow-leaved red ironbark) and/or
                 bloodwoods such as Corymbia trachyphloia (yellow bloodwood), C. leichhardtii (rustyjacket), C. watsoniana
                 (Watson's yellow bloodwood), C. lamprophylla, C. peltata (yellowjacket). Occasionally E. thozetiana (mountain
                 yapunyah), E. cloeziana (Gympie messmate) or E. mediocris are dominant. Mostly on sub-coastal/inland hills
                 with shallow soils. (land zones 10, 7, 9 [11]) (BRB, DEU, SEQ, GUP)
      16c        Woodlands and open woodlands dominated by Eucalyptus coolabah (coolabah) or E. microtheca (coolabah) or                12.24
                 E. largiflorens (black box) or E. tereticornis (blue gum) or E. chlorophylla on floodplains. Does not include
                 alluvial areas dominated by herb and grasslands or alluvial plains that are not flooded. (land zone 3) (All
                 bioregions except WET, principally GUP, BRB, MUL, SEQ)
      22a        Open forests and woodlands dominated by Melaleuca quinquenervia (swamp paperbark) in seasonally                       822.99
                 inundated lowland coastal areas and swamps. (land zones 3, 2, 1, [11]) (SEQ, WET, CQC, CYP, [BRB])
      28a        Complex of open shrubland to closed shrubland, grassland, low woodland and open forest, on strand and                  127.97
                 foredunes. Includes pure stands of Casuarina equisetifolia (coastal sheoak). (land zones 2, 1) (GUP, SEQ, BRB,
                 CYP, [WET, CQC])
      29a        Open heaths and dwarf open heaths on coastal dunefields, sandplains and headlands. (land zones 5, 2, 3, 7, 10,        328.65
                 [12, 11]) (CYP, SEQ, [WET])
      34c        Palustrine wetlands. Freshwater swamps on coastal floodplains dominated by sedges and grasses such as                  36.15
                 Oryza spp., Eleocharis spp. (spikerush) or Baloskion spp. (cord rush) / Leptocarpus tenax / Gahnia sieberiana
                 (sword grass) / Lepironia spp. (land zones 3, 2, 1) (CYP, GUP, BRB, SEQ, WET, [CQC])
      35a        Closed forests and low closed forests dominated by mangroves. (land zone 1) (CYP, GUP, BRB, SEQ, WET,                  153.11
                 CQC)
      35b        Bare saltpans ± areas of Tecticornia spp. (samphire) sparse forbland and/or Xerochloa imberbis or Sporobolus           28.08
                 virginicus (sand couch) tussock grassland. (land zone 1, [3]) (GUP, BRB, CYP, SEQ, CQC, [WET])
    TOTAL                                                                                                                              2541.64

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