The Arnhem Plateau Sandstone Shrubland Complex ecological community is a tyoe of shrubland that occurs predominantly on the Arnhem Plateau massif and outlying or isolated rock platforms and outcrops.
Arnhem Plateau Sandstone Shrubland Complex ecological community
Status: Endangered on the EPBC Act list
Government evidence of impact of climate change:
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Approved Conservation Advice for Arnhem Plateau Sandstone Shrubland Complex ecological community
The main potential threat to the Arnhem Plateau Sandstone Shrubland Complex is climate change.
The following EPBC Act listed Key Threatening Processes (and their associated Threat Abatement Plans); are considered relevant to Arnhem Plateau Sandstone Shrubland Complex Invasion of northern Australia by gamba grass and other introduced grasses Predation by feral cats The biological effects; including lethal toxic ingestion; caused by cane toads (Bufo marinus) and Loss of terrestrial climatic habitat caused by anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases.
Threats The main identified threats to the Arnhem Plateau Sandstone Shrubland Complex are inappropriate fire regimes and invasion by weeds and feral animals (TSSC; 2011).
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