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Threatened species

Rufous Fieldwren - Mulga Lands: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Calamanthus campestris

Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable

Commonwealth status: Not listed

Last updated: 01 Dec 2017

Distribution of the species within this region

The Rufous Fieldwren is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the Mulga Lands Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region	Known or predicted	Geographic restrictions within region
White Cliffs Plateau	Known	None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Rufous Fieldwren - Mulga Lands is known to be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information about it.

Arid shrublands (Chenopod sub-formation)
- Aeolian Chenopod Shrublands
  - 222 Low Bluebush - Bladder Saltbush open shrubland of the arid zone
- Gibber Chenopod Shrublands
  - 156 Bladder Saltbush shrubland on stony plains and downs of the arid zone
  - 155 Bluebush shrubland on stony rises and downs in the arid and semi-arid zones
  - 224 Cotton Bush - copperburr open shrubland of the arid climate zone
- Riverine Chenopod Shrublands
  - 157 Bladder Saltbush shrubland on alluvial plains in the semi-arid (warm) zone including Riverina Bioregion

Saline wetlands
- Inland Saline lakes
  - 166 Disturbed annual saltbush forbland on clay plains and inundation zones mainly of south-western NSW
  - 64 Samphire - Water Weed - Sea-Heath shrubland saline wetland of depressions of the arid and semi-arid (warm) zones
  - 18 Slender Glasswort low shrubland in saline wetland depressions in the semi-arid and arid climate zones, far western NSW
  - 63 Spiny Lignum - Slender Glasswort open forbland sailine wetland on lake edges in the semi-arid and arid climate zones

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