Summary - City of Gosnells

Table of ContentsTable 3.7: Conservation Category Wetlands Criteria (VCSRG, 1998) ................................................................ 25Table 3.8: Resource Enhancement Category Wetlands Criteria (VCSRG, 1998) ............................................... 26Table 3.9: Multiple Use Category Wetlands Criteria (VCSRG, 1998) .................................................................. 26Table 3.10: Management categories of wetlands from EPA Bulletin 686 as updated in Hill et al. (1996) ........... 27Table 3.11: Bulletin 686 Questionnaire for Wetland Management Category Evaluation ..................................... 27Table 3.12: Vegetation status assessment in the evaluation of the management category of wetlands(adapted from Hill et al. 1996, Table 3) ............................................................................................................... 283.4 Survey Limitations ............................................................................................................................................ 29Table 3.13: MKSEA Survey Limitations .............................................................................................................. 324. FLORA ................................................................................................................................................................ 334.1 Flora Desktop Study ......................................................................................................................................... 334.1.1 Flora of Conservation Significance ...................................................................................................................... 344.2 Flora Field Survey ............................................................................................................................................. 39Table 4.1: The most species-rich native plant families of the Greater Brixton Street Wetlands(BFS 387) compared to the MKSEA ................................................................................................................... 40Table 4.2: Species-richness of native flora in the MKSEA compared with other areas ofhigh conservation significance flora nearby ........................................................................................................ 404.2.1 Flora of National Conservation Significance found in the MKSEA ...................................................................... 404.2.2 Flora of State Conservation Significance found in the MKSEA ........................................................................... 41Table 4.3: Summary of the Flora of National and State Significance recorded in the MKSEA Field Survey ....... 434.2.3 Flora of Regional Conservation Significance found in the MKSEA ..................................................................... 435. VEGETATION ..................................................................................................................................................... 505.1 Vegetation Desktop Study ................................................................................................................................ 505.1.1 Vegetation of National Conservation Significance............................................................................................... 50Table 5.1: Vegetation of National and State Conservation Significance known from the vicinity of the MKSEA . 50Table 5.2: Native taxa recorded in at least 50% of sites in the three Corymbia calophylla TECs ofthe Eastern SCP in Gibson et al. (1994) ............................................................................................................. 515.1.2 Vegetation of State Conservation Significance ................................................................................................... 52Table 5.3: Vegetation of State Conservation Significance known from Bush Forever Sites (BFSs) inLocalities in the vicinity of the MKSEA ................................................................................................................ 535.2 Vegetation Field Survey ................................................................................................................................... 555.2.1 Vegetation units recorded in the current MKSEA field Survey ............................................................................ 55Table 5.4: Classification (by structure and dominant species) of Vegetation recorded in the MKSEA field survey655.2.2 Vegetation of the MKSEA in comparison to vegetation within the local conservation estate .............................. 675.2.3 Results of the multivariate analysis of the MKSEA vegetation and assignation of FCTs ................................... 68Table 5.5: Floristic Community Types (FCTs) determined in MKSEA study sites ............................................... 71Table 5.6: Vegetation of the MKSEA. Summary of Floristic Community Types (FCTs) of the SCP andConservation Significance ................................................................................................................................... 756. WETLANDS FIELD SURVEY ............................................................................................................................. 77Table 6.1: Summary of wetlands as mapped in DEC SCP Wetlands Dataset 2008b ......................................... 796.1 Identification and delineation of wetlands in the MKSEA.............................................................................. 816.2 Geomorphic classification of wetlands in the MKSEA area .......................................................................... 82Table 6.2: MKSEA Study sites and their wetland identification ........................................................................... 846.3 Evaluation of wetland management categories in the MKSEA ..................................................................... 88Table 6.3: Review of Wetland Classification and Management Category for wetlands of MKSEA against theexisting DEC Wetland Database ......................................................................................................................... 90Tauss, C. and Weston, A.S. (2010). The flora, vegetation and wetlands of the Maddington-Kenwick Strategic Employment Area.A survey of the rural lands in the vicinity of the Greater Brixton Street Wetlands. Report to the City of Gosnells, W.A. Version 18.04.10