Indicative distribution
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Scientific name: Grey Box (Eucalyptus microcarpa) Grassy Woodlands and Derived Native Grasslands of South-eastern Australia
Gazetted date:
01 Apr 2010
Profile last updated:
01 Nov 2022
Description
Temperate eucalypt woodlands with a grassy understorey were formerly widespread on the lower slopes and plains of mainland eastern Australia, inland of the Great Dividing Range from southern Queensland through to eastern South Australia (Beadle, 1981; Department of the Environment and Water Resources, 2007). The belt of temperate grassy woodlands covered several floristic associations, many of which intergraded with each other and with other vegetation types (Prober and Thiele, 1995). The Grey Box (Eucalyptus microcarpa) Grassy Woodlands and Derived Native Grasslands of South-Eastern Australia predominantly occurs on the drier edge of the temperate grassy eucalypt woodland belt and ranges from central New South Wales through northern and central Victoria into South Australia. Patches that are disjunct from the main belt of the ecological community occur to the south of the Great Dividing Range in Victoria, around Melton and Sunbury to the west of Melbourne (Oates and Taranto, 2001), and also to the west of the Murray River coastal plain in South Australia, around the Flinders and Mount Lofty Ranges near Adelaide (Robertson, 1998). The Grey Box (E. microcarpa) Grassy Woodlands and Derived Native Grasslands of SouthEastern Australia ecological community is relatively less well studied and understood in comparison with other grassy woodland systems in south-eastern Australia. The ecological community also occupies a complex position in the landscape. For example, in NSW it can be transitional between the temperate lower slopes and tablelands occupied by, e.g. the EPBC Act-listed White Box-Yellow Box-Blakely's Red Gum Grassy Woodland and Derived Native Grassland ecological community, and the semi-arid floodplain communities. In Victoria, this community often adjoins other plains communities, notably Ridged Plains Mallee (White et al., 2003) and the EPBC Act-listed Buloke Woodlands of the Riverina and Murray-Darling Depression Bioregions. 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.
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