2016-12-12 General Committee - Attachment 1 to Item 6 - Biodiversity Assessment Report

                                                       Noosa Biodiversity Plan – Biodiversity Assessment Report



Table 5: Priority pest weed and animal species in the Noosa Shire, and their impacts on biodiversity and
threatened species

        Species              Category1                    Impacts                        Affected areas and species

 Groundsel bush                            Replaces      plants    and    destroys    Saltmarsh, wetlands, moist gullies,
                        3
 Baccharis                                 wildlife habitat                           forests, disturbed agricultural areas
 halimifolia
                                           Poisonous,          dominates        the   Shady      and     open       woodlands,
 Mother of millions     3
                                           understorey                                coastal dunes, grasslands
 Bryophyllum spp.

                        2,3,4,5, Weeds
 Bitou bush             of      National   Outcompetes and destroys native
                                                                                      Sandy coastal habitat
 Chrysanthemoides       Significance       species
 monilifera rotundata   (WONS)

 Water hyacinth                            Destroys habitat, kills fish and other     Static    or     slow-moving      water,
                        3, WONS
 Eichhornia                                wildlife, depletes oxygen                  wetlands
 crassipes
                                           Outcompetes native water plants,
 Glush weed             3                                                             Creekbanks, freshwater wetlands
                                           forms mats of dense vegetation
 Hygrophila costata

                                           Forms thick mats that degrade
 Salvinia               3, WONS                                                       Slow-moving streams and ponds
                                           water quality and destroy habitats
 Salvinia molesta

                                           Climbs     and      smothers      native
 Laurel clock vine                                                                    Lowland rainforest, moist areas at
                        N/A                understorey vegetation and mature
 Thunbergia                                                                           low elevations
                                           trees
 laurifolia

                                           Smothers            trees,       shrubs,
                                                                                      Lowland          rainforest       edges,
                                           understory,      and    ground     layer
 Madeira vine           3, WONS                                                       bushland,         disturbed       areas,
                                           species,      can      cause     canopy
 Anredera cordifolia                                                                  waterways
                                           collapse

 Basket asparagus
                                                                                      Lowland rainforest, coastal dunes
 Asparagus              3, WONS            Smothering ground cover
                                                                                      and headlands
 aethiopicus cv.
 sprengeri
                                                                                      Lowland          rainforest,       other
 Climbing asparagus                        Smothers      trees    and     damages
                        3, WONS                                                       rainforests      and   vine     thickets,
 Asparagus                                 ecosystems
                                                                                      riparian areas, bushlands
 africanus

                                                                                      Riparian areas: lowland rainforest,
 Camphor laurel                            Dominates canopy and prevents
                        3                                                             other rainforests and vine thickets,
 Cinnamomum                                understorey growth
                                                                                      wet sclerophyll forests
 camphora

                                           Choke      seedlings     and    smother
 Morning glory          N/A                mature plants, including canopy            Forest edges
 Ipomoea indica                            plants




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