Monitoring Threatened Species and Ecological Communities

114 Monitoring Threatened Species and Ecological Communities

Table 8.3.

Synopsis of systematic ecological monitoring carried out in threatened e

cological communities listed under the EPBC Act.

Ecological community

Status

Remote sensing

Ground survey

Source

Alpine sphagnum bogs and associated fens

Endangered

Composition, soils, hydrology (1947–2016)

Williams

et al.

(2014)

*; Wild and

Magierowski (2015)

Aquatic root mat communities 1–4 in caves of the Leeuwin Naturaliste Ridge

Endangered

Vegetation, water table (c. 1990s-present)

Froend

et al.

(2004)

Aquatic root mat community in caves of the Swan Coastal Plain

Endangered

Water table

Department of Water (2017)

Arnhem Plateau sandstone shrubland complex

Endangered

Fire regimes

Composition, photopoints, vertebrates (1994–2016)

Russell-Smith

et al.

(2014)

*

Brigalow (

Acacia harpophylla

dominant and

co-dominant)

Endangered

Land cover (1988–2015)

DSITI (2015)

Broad leaf tea-tree (

Melaleuca viridiflora

)

woodlands in high rainfall coastal north Queensland

Endangered

Land cover (1988–2015)

DSITI (2015)

Coastal upland swamps in the Sydney Basin Bioregion

Endangered

Swamp boundary dynamics

Vegetation structure, composition (1983–2016)

Keith

et al.

(2010); Mason

et al.

(2017 )

*

Coolibah – black box woodlands of the Darling Riverine Plains and the Brigalow Belt South Bioregions

Endangered

Land cover (1980s–2015)

Keith

et al.

(2009); DSITI (2015)

Cumberland plain shale woodlands and shale-gravel transition forest

Critically Endangered

Composition (restoration plantings) (2002–2016)

Wilkins

et al.

(2003); Nichols

et al.

(2010)

*

Eastern Stirling Range montane heath and thicket

Endangered

Disease impact, fire occurrence, selected plant populations (1997–2016)

Barrett and Yates (2015)

Giant kelp marine forests of South East Australia

Endangered

Visible canopy extent (1940–2007)

Zooplankton composition (1971–73, 2000–2009), urchin barrens extent (1974–2000)

Johnson

et al.

( 2011)