Strategic management of Aleppo Pines on Lower Eyre

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Cite as: ‘Way, S (2006) <strong>Strategic</strong> <strong>management</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Aleppo</strong> <strong>Pines</strong> on Lower Eyre Peninsula to maximise biodiversity conservation outcomes, Department for Environment and Heritage, South Australia.’ Further copies <strong>of</strong> this report can be obtained from: Department for Environment and Heritage West Region Office Address: 75 Liverpool Street, Port Lincoln SA 5606 Postal address: PO Box 22, Port Lincoln SA 5606 Phone: +61(0) 8 8688 3111 Published by the Department for Environment and Heritage, Port Lincoln, Australia � Department for Environment and Heritage, 2006 FIS: 2469.06 Cover photographs: <strong>Aleppo</strong> Pine infestation, Uley Basin, lower Eyre Peninsula, South Australia (Photo: Sarah Way). Sugar Gum Woodland threatened vegetation community, lower Eyre Peninsula (Photo: Amy Ide). Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo eating a pine cone (Photo: Kari Hoven). Vulnerable Silver Daisy-bush (Photo: DEH).
CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ....................................................................................................................................iii 1 INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................................... 1 2 THE ALEPPO PINE ON EYRE PENINSULA ................................................................................................ 2 2.1 Ecology ........................................................................................................................................ 2 2.2 History and distribution on Eyre Peninsula................................................................................ 2 2.3 Implications for biodiversity conservation................................................................................ 3 2.3.1 Native vegetation and threatened flora.................................................................... 3 2.3.2 Interactions with native fauna ..................................................................................... 3 3 EYRE PENINSULA YELLOW-TAILED BLACK-COCKATOO ...................................................................... 4 3.1 Conservation status and distribution ........................................................................................4 3.2 The EPYTBC Habitat Recovery Project ..................................................................................... 7 3.3 Diet ............................................................................................................................................... 7 3.4 Foraging ecology ....................................................................................................................... 8 3.4.1 Habitual feeding behaviour and site fidelity.............................................................. 8 3.4.2 Learnt behaviour ........................................................................................................... 8 3.4.3 Predation ........................................................................................................................ 8 3.4.4 Nest selection.................................................................................................................8 3.4.5 <strong>Aleppo</strong> <strong>Pines</strong> as an EPYTBC food resource................................................................. 9 4 QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF EPYTBC FOOD RESOURCES ................................. 10 4.1 Quality: Nutritional analysis...................................................................................................... 10 4.1.1 Methods........................................................................................................................10 4.1.2 Results ........................................................................................................................... 11 4.2 Quantitative analysis: Estimating cone abundance and number <strong>of</strong> seeds...................... 12 4.2.1 Methods........................................................................................................................12 4.2.2 Results ........................................................................................................................... 13 5 CONE ABUNDANCE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR REVEGETATION ....................................................... 15 5.1 <strong>Aleppo</strong> Pine and hakea food resource equivalence: Revegetation scenario ................ 15 5.2 Limitations for revegetation..................................................................................................... 16 6 ALEPPO PINE MANAGEMENT ON LOWER EYRE PENINSULA............................................................. 17 6.1 Past and current control efforts .............................................................................................. 17 6.2 Implications <strong>of</strong> the Wangary Fire, January 2005 ................................................................... 17 6.2.1 Implications on <strong>Aleppo</strong> Pine abundance on lower Eyre Peninsula....................... 17 6.2.2 Impact on <strong>Aleppo</strong> Pine EPYTBC food resources ...................................................... 18 7 ALEPPO PINE SURVEY, 2005................................................................................................................. 19 7.1 Methods..................................................................................................................................... 19 7.1.1 Field survey ...................................................................................................................19 7.1.2 Identifying and assessing impacts to biodiversity values ........................................ 19 7.1.3 Setting control priorities............................................................................................... 20 7.2 Results ........................................................................................................................................ 20 7.2.1 Field survey ...................................................................................................................20 7.2.2 Desktop analysis ..........................................................................................................20 7.3 Discussion................................................................................................................................... 21 7.3.1 Protecting large remnant areas ................................................................................ 21 7.3.2 Private land .................................................................................................................. 21 8 A STRATEGIC APPROACH ................................................................................................................... 22 8.1 Criteria for <strong>Aleppo</strong> Pine control .............................................................................................. 22 8.2 Critieria for <strong>Aleppo</strong> Pine retention .......................................................................................... 22 8.3 Guidelines for stakeholders ..................................................................................................... 23 9 KEY RESOURCES, DOCUMENTS AND CONTACTS.............................................................................. 24 9.1 Key documents......................................................................................................................... 24 9.2 Key contacts ............................................................................................................................. 24 10 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ....................................................................................................................... 25 <strong>Strategic</strong> <strong>management</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Aleppo</strong> <strong>Pines</strong> on Lower Eyre Peninsula to maximise biodiversity conservation outcomes i
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