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Biodiversity Assessment - Pilbara

Threatened Ecosystems

Table: Provisional list of threatened ecosystems in Australia: their broad vegetation type (National Vegetation Information System - Major Vegetation Subgroup), recommended status, current legislative protection as a threatened ecosystem, trend and bioregional distribution. These ecosystems are arranged in the bioregion of their principal occurrence. The reliability of the recommended status is indicated.
Ecosystem name NVIS-MVS EPBC listing State listing Recommended status Reliability assessment Trend Bioregional occurrence
All major ephemeral water courses Eucalyptus forests with a shrubby understorey  No data No data Vulnerable  Quantitative and qualitative  Declining  No data
Coolibah Swamp Eucalyptus woodlands with a grassy understorey  No data No data Vulnerable  Quantitative and qualitative  Declining  No data
Cracking clay communities of the Chichester Range Other tussock grasslands  No data No data Vulnerable  Quantitative and qualitative  Static  No data
Creekline communities dominated by Cynanchum aff. Eucalyptus woodlands with a shrubby understorey  No data No data Vulnerable  Quantitative and qualitative  Unknown  No data
Grove/inter-grove mulga Arid acacia low open woodlands and shrublands with chenopods  No data No data Vulnerable  Quantitative and qualitative  Declining  No data
Heliotropium, Eragrostis community Other tussock grasslands  No data No data Vulnerable  Quantitative and qualitative  Unknown  No data
Hill-top floras Other shrublands  No data No data Vulnerable  Quantitative and qualitative  Declining  No data
Invertebrate assemblages (Errawallana Spring type) Spinifex Hummock Grasslands  No data No data Vulnerable  Quantitative and qualitative  Static  No data
Lower-slope mulga Arid acacia low open woodlands and shrublands with hummock grass  No data No data Endangered  Quantitative and qualitative  Rapidly declining  No data
Mangrove communities Mangroves, tidal mudflat and coastal samphire  No data No data Vulnerable  Quantitative and qualitative  Declining  No data
Mount Salt, calcareous mound spring Bare areas, rock, sand, claypan, salt lakes and lagoons  No data No data Vulnerable  Quantitative and qualitative  Extinction  No data
Munjina Claypan and associated mulga community Unclassified native vegetation  No data No data Vulnerable  Quantitative and qualitative  Declining  No data
Other stygofauna associated with aquifers near min Unclassified native vegetation  No data No data Vulnerable  Quantitative and qualitative  Unknown  No data
Peedamulla (Cane River) Swamp Cyperaceae community Eucalyptus woodlands with a grassy understorey  No data No data Vulnerable  Quantitative and qualitative  Rapidly declining  No data
Pilbara off-shore island communities Spinifex Hummock Grasslands  No data No data Vulnerable  Quantitative and qualitative  Declining  No data
Rock pile communities Spinifex Hummock Grasslands  No data No data Vulnerable  Quantitative and qualitative  Declining  No data
Rock pool communities Spinifex Hummock Grasslands  No data No data Vulnerable  Quantitative and qualitative  Declining  No data
Roebourne Plains coastal grasslands Spinifex Hummock Grasslands  No data No data Vulnerable  Quantitative and qualitative  Declining  No data
Roebourne Plains stony chenopod association Chenopod shrublands  No data No data Vulnerable  Quantitative and qualitative  Unknown  No data
Saltbush Shrublands Mixed Chenopod, Samphire and Forblands  No data No data Vulnerable  Quantitative and qualitative  Declining  No data
Saltbush community of the duplex plains Mixed Chenopod, Samphire and Forblands  No data No data Vulnerable  Quantitative and qualitative  Unknown  No data
Specific snakewood communities Arid acacia low open woodlands and shrublands with hummock grass  No data No data Vulnerable  Quantitative and qualitative  Declining  No data
Stygofauna communities Ore body 23 Unclassified native vegetation  No data No data Vulnerable  Quantitative and qualitative  Unknown  No data
Themeda grasslands of the Pilbara Region No data No data Vulnerable  Vulnerable  Quantitative and qualitative  Unknown  No data
Triodia biflora community on ironstone hills Arid acacia low open woodlands and shrublands with hummock grass  No data No data Vulnerable  Quantitative and qualitative  Static  No data
Valley floor mulga Arid acacia low open woodlands and shrublands with chenopods  No data No data Vulnerable  Quantitative and qualitative  Declining  No data
Wetland community Eucalyptus forests with a shrubby understorey  No data No data Vulnerable  Quantitative and qualitative  Declining  No data
Wetland community Eucalyptus forests with a shrubby understorey  No data No data Vulnerable  Quantitative and qualitative  Declining  No data

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