SPECIES @ RISK
Information courtesy of the Department of Natural Resources, Environment and The Arts
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FAUNA
RED GOSHAWK
Erythrotriorchis radiatus
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PARTRIDGE PIGEON
Geophaps smithii
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MASKED OWL (Endemic)
Tyto novaehollandiae melvillensismore information…
BUTLER’S DUNNART
Sminthopsis butleri
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FALSE WATER RAT
Xeromis myoides
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FLORA
to be continued ...
youssef said
please send me a list of native plants that useto grow on Tiwi Irland thank you
tiwiccbb said
http://www.nt.gov.au/nreta/wildlife/animals/threatened/pdf/plants/Typhonium_jonesii_EN.pdf
http://www.anra.gov.au/topics/vegetation/assessment/nt/ibra-tiw-species-recovery.html
http://www.nt.gov.au/nreta/wildlife/animals/threatened/pdf/plants/Typhonium_mirabile_EN.pdf
http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/species/pubs/typhonium-mirabile-listing.pdf
http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/species/pubs/mitrella-sp-melville-island-listing.pdf
http://www.nt.gov.au/nreta/wildlife/nature/tiwicobourg.html
http://www.environorth.org.au/windows/dk/dk_plants_animals.html
http://naea.org.au/tiwitrashed
The predominant vegetation communities are eucalypt forest and woodlands with tussock and hummock grass understorey (Connor et. al., 1996). However there is a diversity of vegetation communities in the bioregion, varying with topography and drainage (Kerle, 1996). These are:
Monsoon vine forest thicket
This bioregion has relatively large areas of coastal, spring and riparian monsoon rainforests, which typically occur as small species-rich patches
Undulating low plateaux, and gravel rises
The most extensive vegetation type away from the immediate coast is eucalypt forest co dominated by darwin stringybark (Eucalyptus tetrodonta) and darwin woolly butt (E. miniata), often in association with melville island bloodwood (E. nesophila), ironwood (Erythrophleum chorostachys) and northern cypress pine (Callitris intratropica). Many forests also have a well developed shrub layer including Acacias, fan palm (Livistona humilis), the tall palm (Gronophyllum ramsayi), cycads and screw palm (Pandanus spiralis).
Eucalypt woodlands occur in more restricted areas, typically on heavier soils. The dominant species include Corymbia latifolia and C. oligantha.
Riverine and poorly drained soils
Paper bark swamps occur on some creek systems and drainage depressions. Species include Melaleuca leucadendra, M. cajuputi and M. viridiflora). Grasslands and sedgelands occur on the seasonal floodplains including wild rice (Oryza rufopogon), and spikerush (Eleocharis spp.).
Coastal communities
Coastal communities vary from beach dunes to salt flats, heathlands, swamps, shrublands and mangrove closed forest. There are a number of species of mangrove, the most common being the white mangrove (Avicennia marina). Dunes may include coastal sheoak (Casuarina equisetifolia).
Anonymous said
Ants come to light on the Tiwis
Wednesday, 26/08/2009
While much of the world is lamenting the loss of biodiversity and the extinction of species, on islands off the coast of Darwin, new species are still being discovered.
In fact, this year, 20 new species of ants have been discovered on the Tiwi Islands.
Alan Anderson, chief research scientist for the CSIRO in Darwin, says the Islands have the perfect environment for such discoveries.
“The Tiwi Islands are really interesting from a biogeographic perspective, because they’re the most northerly part of this part of Northern Australia and the wettest part,” he says.
“So there’s a lot of plants and animals species that are only found here.”