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Limpopo West Mine: Biodiversity and Impact AssessmentTable 7-16 Summary Information for Plant Community 9 ..................................... 80Table 7-17 Vegetation structure for Plant Community 9 ....................................... 80Table 7-18 Summary information for Plant Community 10 ................................... 81Table 7-19 Vegetation Structure for Plant community 10 ..................................... 81Table 7-20 Protected plant species identified on site ............................................... 83Table 7-21 Alien and weed plant species found in Plant Community 1: Wetland .. 85Table 7-22 Alien and weed plant species found in Plant Community 2: Acacianigrescens Bush clumps .................................................................... 85Table 7-23 Alien and weed plant species found in Plant Community 3: MixedAcacia Bush ................................................................................... 86Table 7-24 Alien and weed plant species found in Plant Community 4: Terminaliasericea – Burkea africana Woodland .................................................. 86Table 7-25 Alien and weed plant species found in Plant Community 5:Combretum apiculatum – Terminalia sericea Woodland ................. 86Table 7-26 Alien and weed plant species found in Plant Community 7: Sclerocaryabirrea Woodland ................................................................................. 86Table 7-27 Alien and weed plant species found in Plant Community 8:Spirostachys africana Bush Clumps ............................................... 86Table 7-28 Alien and weed plant species found in Plant Community 9:Combretum imberbe – Acacia erioloba Woodland .......................... 87Table 7-29 Alien and weed plant species found in Plant Community 10: Boscia –Grewia – Commiphora Bushveld ........................................................ 87Table 7-30 Numbers of faunal species identified .................................................. 87Table 7-31 Numbers of faunal species identified during current and previousstudies ............................................................................................... 88Table 7-32 Newman’s (2002) modified bird categories ..................................... 90Table 7-33 Reptile diversity in the study area ................................................... 92Table 7-34 Frog diversity in the study area .............................................................. 94Table 7-35 Potentially occurring mammal species of conservation importance .... 98Table 7-36 Potentially occurring bird species of conservation importance ...........100Table 7-37 Conservation important herpetofauna potentially occurring in the LWMStudy area.........................................................................................101Table 7-38 Potentially occurring invertebrate species of conservation importance102Table 7-39 Summary of results of the wetlands in the Mine area ........................104Table 7-40 Specific Pollution sensitivity Index (SPI) score classification ofdiatoms recorded at three sites in the Limpopo River in November2010 and March 2011. ...................................................................124Table 7-41 Generic diatom based ecological classification of diatoms recorded atthree sites in the Limpopo River in November 2010 and March 2011(according to van Dam et al. 1994). ..................................................124Table 7-42 Dominant diatom species recorded at three sites in the LimpopoRiver in November 2010 and March 2011, expressed as apercentage of the total sample. ......................................................125Table 9-1 Biodiversity Impacts associated with the Mine ...................................149Table 9-2 Cumulative biodiversity impacts ........................................................151Table 10-1 Biodiversity impacts associated with the Mine post-mitigation ...........159xii