Monitoring Threatened Species and Ecological Communities

8 – Monitoring threatened ecosystems and ecological communities^115

Ecological community

Status

Remote sensing

Ground survey

Source

Lowland rainforest of subtropical Australia

Critically Endangered

Land cover (1988–2015)

DSITI (2015)

Mabi Forest (complex notophyll vine forest 5b)

Critically Endangered

Land cover (1988–2015)

Vegetation structure, composition, tree growth and survival (1975–2016)

DSITI (2015), Metcalfe

et al

. (2014)

*

Natural temperate grassland of the South Eastern Highlands

Critically Endangered

Vegetation structure, composition, soils, birds, photopoints (2006–2016)

Bush Heritage Australia (2016)

Perched wetlands of the Wheatbelt region with extensive stands of living sheoak and paperbark across the lake floor (Toolibin Lake)

Endangered

Water table (c.1970–present)

Rutherford

et al.

(2015)

Semi-evergreen vine thickets of the Brigalow Belt (North and South) and Nandewar Bioregions

Endangered

Land cover (1988–2015)

DSITI (2015)

Shrublands on southern Swan Coastal Plain ironstones

Endangered

Composition (1993, 2011), groundwater (1984–2015)

English and Keith (2015).

Subtropical and temperate coastal saltmarsh

Vulnerable

Extent (1940 –1999)

Various studies reviewed in Saintilan and Williams (1999)

Swamp tea-tree (

Melaleuca irbyana

) forest of

South-east Queensland

Critically Endangered

Land cover (1988–2015)

DSITI (2015)

Thrombolite (microbialite) community of a coastal brackish lake (Lake Clifton)

Critically Endangered

Zooplankton, water chemistry, lake depth (1985–present)

Smith

et al.

(2010)

White box-yellow box-Blakely’s red gum grassy woodland and derived native grassland

Critically Endangered

Composition (1993–2016), vertebrate abundance (2002–2016), photopoints

Lindenmayer

et al

. (2014b)

*, Prober

et al.

(2007); Bush Heritage

Australia (2016)

*Indicates plot-based studies within Australia’s Long-term Ecological Research Network (Burns

et al

. 2015).