Indicative distribution
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Scientific name: Temperate Highland Peat Swamps on Sandstone
Gazetted date:
12 May 2005
Profile last updated:
03 Jul 2024
Description
Components of the Temperate Highland Peat Swamps on Sandstone ecological community are either temporary or permanent swamps. These swamps are found in a range of locations in the landscape, from hanging swamps in the Blue Mountains to the valley and watercourse swamps of Wingecarribee Swamp and the Paddy's River Swamps. Hanging swamps are especially notable in the landscape as they occur on steep valley sides in wet areas created by water exiting the ground at joins between sandstone and claystone layers of rock. The other swamps in this ecological community occur in depressions in the landscape, or along watercourses.
The location of the Temperate Highland Peat Swamps on Sandstone ecological community in the landscape plays an important role in determining the level of waterlogging and the amount of sedimentation that occur in the swamps. Hanging swamps have low levels of sedimentation, and accumulate organic material slowly, while valley swamps and those along watercourses have greater levels of sedimentation, and accumulate organic material more quickly. The difference in the accumulation of organic material is important for the depth of the peat on which these swamps are based: shallow in the hanging swamps and deep in the swamps on valley floors.
The interaction of location, waterlogging, sedimentation, and fire history impact on the vegetation found within the various components of the Temperate Highland Peat Swamps on Sandstone ecological community. The vegetation associated with this ecological community is a complex patchwork of vegetation types, and varies from bog and fen associations in the wettest parts of some components, through to sedge associations, and shrub associations in the driest parts of the ecological community. In order to meet the definition of the TEC sites must satisfy condition criteria stipulated in the Listing Advice and/or Conservation Advice. Typically condition is assessed by reference to patch size and vegetation structure thresholds or species composition metrics.
Distribution
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Recovery strategies
Priority actions are the specific, practical things that must be done to recover a threatened species, population or ecological
community. The Office of Environment and Heritage has identified
0 priority actions
to help recover the Temperate Highland Peat Swamps on Sandstone in New South Wales.
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