Map of 35 NSW-listed threatened ecological communities (TECs) within Greater Sydney. The map is derived from a number of best available mapping products and expert input. While the distribution of a number of TECs extends beyond Greater Sydney, their distribution beyond the study area is not represented in this map, with two exceptions: the Blue Mountains Basalt Forest and Pittwater and Wagstaffe Spotted Gum Forest TECs.
The methodology and scale of best available sources used to derive the map vary, with concomitant variation in currency, coverage, spatial precision and attribution accuracy. There are known gaps in coverage due to the lack of mapping sources in some locations within the study area (including, but not limited to the Grose Valley near Wollangambe, Ebenezer, Cattai, west of Mulgoa and west of Thirlmere). Limitations of this map include: areas not identified as TEC may be TEC, areas identified as TEC may not be TEC, and areas identified as a TEC may be a different TEC. Accordingly, property-scale assessments should inform activities, plans and proposals at the property scale.
Mapping is updated frequently via expert input. The map data informs the Biodiversity Values Map, Native Vegetation Regulatory Map, Rural Fire Service 10/50 tool and High Environmental Values Greater Sydney map.
For more information about the map, refer to the report 'Map of threatened ecological communities in Greater Sydney'.
TECs included in this map are:
Agnes Banks Woodland in the Sydney Basin Bioregion
Bangalay Sand Forest of the Sydney Basin and South East Corner bioregions
Blue Gum High Forest in the Sydney Basin Bioregion
Blue Mountains Basalt Forest in the Sydney Basin Bioregion
Blue Mountains Shale Cap Forest in the Sydney Basin Bioregion
Blue Mountains Swamps in the Sydney Basin Bioregion
Castlereagh Scribbly Gum Woodland in the Sydney Basin Bioregion
Castlereagh Swamp Woodland
Coastal Saltmarsh in the NSW North Coast, Sydney Basin and South East Corner bioregions
Coastal Upland Swamp in the Sydney Basin Bioregion
Cooks River/Castlereagh Ironbark Forest in the Sydney Basin Bioregion
Cumberland Plain Woodland in the Sydney Basin Bioregion
Duffys Forest Ecological Community in the Sydney Basin Bioregion
Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub in the Sydney Basin Bioregion
Elderslie Banksia Scrub Forest in the Sydney Basin Bioregion
Freshwater wetlands on coastal floodplains of the NSW North Coast, Sydney Basin and South-East Corner bioregions
Hygrocybeae Community of Lane Cove Bushland Park in the Sydney Basin Bioregion
Kurnell Dune Forest in the Sutherland Shire and the City of Rockdale
Littoral Rainforest in the NSW North Coast, Sydney Basin and South East Corner bioregions
Maroota Sands Swamp Forest
Moist Shale Woodland in the Sydney Basin Bioregion
Montane Peatlands and Swamps of the New England Tableland, NSW North Coast, Sydney Basin, South East Corner, South Eastern Highlands and Australian Alps bioregions
O'Hares Creek Shale Forest
Pittwater and Wagstaffe Spotted Gum Forest in the Sydney Basin Bioregion
River-flat Eucalypt Forest on Coastal Floodplain of the NSW North Coast, Sydney Basin and South East Corner bioregions
Shale Sandstone Transition Forest in the Sydney Basin Bioregion
Southern Sydney Sheltered Forest on Transitional Sandstone Soils in the Sydney Basin Bioregion
Sun Valley Cabbage Gum in the Sydney Basin Bioregion
Swamp Oak Floodplain Forest of the NSW North Coast, Sydney Basin and South East Corner bioregions
Swamp Sclerophyll Forest on Coastal Floodplains of the NSW North Coast, Sydney Basin and South East Corner bioregions
Sydney Freshwater Wetlands in the Sydney Basin Bioregion
Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark Forest in the Sydney Basin Bioregion
The Shorebird Community occurring on the relict tidal delta sands at Taren Point
Themeda Grassland on Seacliffs and Coastal Headlands in the NSW North Coast, Sydney Basin and South East Corner bioregions
Western Sydney Dry Rainforest in the Sydney Basin Bioregion
