EVC/Bioregion Benchmark for Vegetation Quality Assessment Gippsland Plain bioregion EVC 879: Coastal Dune Grassland Description: Consists of grasses and halophytes (succulents) that colonise the foredunes of ocean beaches. Soils are siliceous sands that have a very low humus content. Life Forms: Life form #Spp %Cover LF code Medium Shrub 1 5% MS Small Shrub 1 5% SS Prostrate Shrub 1 1% PS Large Herb 2 5% LH Medium Herb 4 5% MH Small or Prostrate Herb 3 10% SH Medium to Small Tufted Graminoid 3 10% MTG Medium to Tiny Non-tufted Graminoid 2 25% MNG Scrambler or Climber 1 1% SC Total understorey projective foliage cover 60% LF Code Species typical of at least part of EVC range Common Name Atriplex cinerea MS Coast Saltbush SS Suaeda australis Austral Seablite MH Acaena novae-zelandiae Bidgee-widgee MH Actites megalocarpa Dune Thistle Senecio pinnatifolius MH Variable Groundsel SH Carpobrotus rossii Karkalla Crassula sieberiana SH Sieber Crassula SH Disphyma crassifolium ssp. clavellatum Rounded Noon-flower Apium annuum SH Annual Celery MTG Dianella brevicaulis Small-flower Flax-lily Carex pumila MTG Strand Sedge MNG Spinifex sericeus Hairy Spinifex MNG Ficinia nodosa Knobby Club-sedge Clematis microphylla SC Small-leaved Clematis Recruitment: Continuous Organic Litter: 10 % cover Weediness: LF Code Typical Weed Species Common Name Invasive Impact Sonchus oleraceus LH Common Sow-thistle high low Hypochoeris MH Cat's Ear high low MH radicata Hairy Hawkbit high low Leontodon taraxacoides MTG ssp. Sea LTG taraxacoides Thinopyrum junceiforme Ammophila arenaria Marram Grass high high Ecological Vegetation Class bioregion benchmark
EVC/Bioregion Benchmark for Vegetation Quality Assessment Gippsland Plain bioregion EVC 879: Coastal Dune Grassland Description: Consists of grasses and halophytes (succulents) that colonise the foredunes of ocean beaches. Soils are siliceous sands that have a very low humus content. Life Forms: Life form #Spp %Cover LF code Medium Shrub 1 5% MS Small Shrub 1 5% SS Prostrate Shrub 1 1% PS Large Herb 2 5% LH Medium Herb 4 5% MH Small or Prostrate Herb 3 10% SH Medium to Small Tufted Graminoid 3 10% MTG Medium to Tiny Non-tufted Graminoid 2 25% MNG Scrambler or Climber 1 1% SC Total understorey projective foliage cover 60% LF Code MS Species typical of at least part of EVC range Atriplex cinerea Common Name Coast Saltbush SS Suaeda australis Austral Seablite MH Acaena novae-zelandiae Bidgee-widgee MH Actites megalocarpa Dune Thistle MH Senecio pinnatifolius Variable Groundsel SH Carpobrotus rossii Karkalla SH Crassula sieberiana Sieber Crassula SH Disphyma crassifolium ssp. clavellatum Rounded Noon-flower SH Apium annuum Annual Celery MTG Dianella brevicaulis Small-flower Flax-lily MTG Carex pumila Strand Sedge MNG Spinifex sericeus Hairy Spinifex MNG Ficinia nodosa Knobby Club-sedge SC Clematis microphylla Small-leaved Clematis Recruitment: Continuous Organic Litter: 10 % cover Weediness: LF Code Typical Weed Species Common Name Invasive Impact LH MH MH MTG LTG Sonchus oleraceus Hypochoeris radicata Leontodon taraxacoides ssp. taraxacoides Thinopyrum junceiforme Ammophila arenaria Common Sow-thistle Cat's Ear Hairy Hawkbit Sea Marram Grass high high high high low low low high Ecological Vegetation Class bioregion benchmark
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