Ecological Assessment Report

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 Name   Common Name   NCA Status   Vegetation Community                                                   Altitude       Soils   Position in Landscape


 860          Phascolarctos     koala         V            SEQ: Open eucalypt forest and woodland that has: a) multiple           Sea level to   None    Riparian areas, plains

              cinereus                                     strata layers containing Eucalyptus, Corymbia, Angophora,              1000m.                 and hill/escarpment

                                                           Lophostemon or Melaleuca trees that-at 1.3 metres above the                                   slopes.

                                                           ground-have a diameter both greater and less than 30

                                                           centimetres; and b) at least 1 of the following species: Eucalyptus

                                                           tereticornis, E. fibrosa, E. propinqua; E. umbra, E. grandis, E.

                                                           microcorys, E. tindaliae, E. resinifera, E. populnea, E. robusta, E.

                                                           nigra, E. racemosa, E. crebra, E. exserta, E. seeana,

                                                           Lophostemon confertus, L. suaveolens, Melaleuca quinquenervia.

                                                           Outside SEQ: Open eucalypt forest and woodland that contains

                                                           Eucalyptus &/or Corymbia spp. Tree species used for food varies

                                                           across State and can include Eucalyptus tereticornis, E.

                                                           camaldulensis, E. coolabah; E. drepanophylla, E. platyphylla, E.

                                                           orgadophilla, E. thozetiana, E. melanophloia, E. populnea, E.

                                                           melliodora, E. dealbata, E. microtheca, E. crebra, E. exserta, E.

                                                           blakelyi, E. papuana, Corymbia tessellaris, C. citriodora,

                                                           Melaleuca quinquenervia, M. leucadendra.




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