The Cumberland Plain Shale Woodlands and Shale-Gravel Transition Forest represents certain occurrences of the coastal plain grassy eucalypt woodlands that are endemic to the shale hills and plains of the Sydney Basin Bioregion in NSW and which occur primarily in, but not limited to, the Cumberland Sub-region.
Cumberland Plain Shale Woodlands and Shale- Gravel Transition Forest ecological community
Status: Critically Endangered on the EPBC Act list
Government evidence of impact of climate change:
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Approved Conservation Advice for Cumberland Plain Shale Woodlands and Shale- Gravel Transition Forest ecological community
The main potential threat to the Cumberland Plain Shale Woodlands and Shale Gravel Transition Forest ecological community is climate change.
The potential large scale impacts of climate change could influence the species composition of this ecological community through their responses to disturbance and the very nature of those disturbances.
Threats The main and ongoing threats to the Cumberland Plain Shale Woodlands and Shale Gravel Transition Forest ecological community include clearing for urban; industrial or rural development; the consequent fragmentation of native vegetation remnants; inappropriate grazing and fire regimes; weed invasion and the low level of protection in reserves.
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