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- 2.7 Receptor impact modelling for the Namoi subregion
- 2.7.6 'Rainforest' landscape group
Summary
The ‘Rainforest’ landscape group is distinguished primarily by its vegetation structure and composition. The ‘Rainforest’ landscape group is predominately ‘Dry Rainforest’ or ‘Western Vine Thickets’ (both threatened vegetation classes in NSW). ‘Rainforest’ and ‘Rainforest groundwater-dependent ecosystem (GDE)’ landscape classes in the eastern portion of the Namoi assessment extent tend to occupy higher elevations on scree slopes and gullies in Mt Kaputar National Park and other similar mountainous terrain. Further west on the Liverpool Plains, the remnants of the ‘Rainforest’ landscape group are predominantly semi-evergreen thicket or low microphyll vine forest occupying habitats on basalt outcrops and sandstone hills.
A very small proportion of the ‘Rainforest’ landscape group within the assessment extent is located within the zone of potential hydrological change. There is 4 km2 of the ‘Rainforest’ landscape class and 0.3 km2 of the ‘Rainforest GDE’ landscape class within the zone of potential hydrological change in the Namoi subregion.
A qualitative model was developed for this landscape group given the conservation values surrounding the vegetation types common to this group. This model identified groundwater drawdown as being critical to supporting many biophysical components of the model. Given the limited resources and the limited extent of this landscape group, a receptor impact model was not formulated.
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- 2.7.1 Methods
- 2.7.2 Prioritising landscape classes for receptor impact modelling
- 2.7.3 'Floodplain or lowland riverine' landscape group
- 2.7.4 'Non-floodplain or upland riverine' landscape group
- 2.7.5 Pilliga riverine landscape classes
- 2.7.6 'Rainforest' landscape group
- 2.7.7 'Springs' landscape group
- 2.7.8 Limitations and gaps
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