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Leaf litter, mainly White Beech, Gmelina leichhardtii, from Black Bulga State Conservation Area, NSW, Australia Plant litter (also leaf litter, tree litter, soil litter, litterfall or duff) is dead plant material (such as leaves, bark, needles, twigs, and cladodes) that have fallen to the ground.
Lerista timida, the dwarf three-toed slider or wood mulch-slider, is a species of skink found in Australia. [2] Other common names for the species include timid slider and dwarf burrowing skink. The skink is a member of the Lerista genus which are confined to continental Australia and are mostly a burrowing species of skink. [ 3 ]
Hedleyella falconeri is found in subtropical eastern Australia from Smiths Lake in New South Wales to just north of Brisbane. Its western limit is the Great Dividing Range. It lives on the forest floor among leaf litter and mossy logs and has not been observed to climb up trees to heights of more than 0.5 metres (1 ft 8 in). [1]
For this edition of Scrub Hub, we dive into fall with a look at why autumn leaves can clog stormwater drains and how to help out.
Methana marginalis is often found among leaf litter and loose bark. Pictured in Bahrs Scrub, Queensland. The species is commonly found in coastal Queensland, Australia, including K'gari / Fraser Island, [1] and since the mid-2000s has increasingly been seen in Sydney, New South Wales. [4]
As their name implies, treecreepers forage for insects and other small creatures living on and under the bark of trees, mostly eucalypts, though several species also hunt on the ground, through leaf-litter, and on fallen timber. Unlike the Holarctic treecreepers they do not use their tail for support when climbing tree trunks, only their feet.