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Curtain Fig, within North Queensland's largest remnant Mabi forest (4 km 2) [1]. Mabi forests (also known as Complex Notophyll Vine Forests) are a type of ecological community found in the Australian state of Queensland which is considered to be critically endangered and which consists of remnant patches found only either in North Queensland's Atherton Tablelands or at Shiptons Flat (also ...
The araucarian notophyll vine forest (ANVF) is unusual in the district, as many of the species are representative of dry rainforest. Some other species present include Olea Paniculata, Ophioglossum Pendulum, Hodkinsonia Oratifola, Calophaniodes Hyhrophiloides and Tragia Novaehollandiae.
Semi-deciduous notophyll/microphyll vine forest growing on exposed metamorphic and granitic slopes. [ 2 ] An additional threatened ecosystem located within the national park is a sclerophyll woodland dominated by Eucalyptus leptophleba , Corymbia tessellaris and Corymbia clarksoniana which has developed upon soils formed from basalt flows.
The Scrub consists of lowland rainforest, eucalypt tall open forest and closed eucalypt woodland. The rainforest type represented there is predominantly semi-deciduous notophyll vine forest growing upon a number of different soil types. [1] [2] The climate is monsoonal with well-defined wet and dry seasons.
Rainforest in the National Park ranges from high elevation, notophyll vine forest to low elevation mesophyll forests at the base of the ranges. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Notophyll vine forest with tall eucalypts such as red stringybark ( Eucalyptus resinifera ) is found on the ridges of eastern facing slopes and drier western slopes often contain hoop pine ...
The black-breasted button-quail Turnix melanogaster is a small ground dwelling bird which inhabits notophyll vine forest or ‘dry rainforests’ [29] [30] with up to 90% of its habitat has been cleared with less than 2,500 individuals estimated remaining in the wild. [30]
The vegetation type indigenous to the area is mabi rainforest (complex notophyll vine forest), now classified as endangered. [1] [4] The Curtain Fig Tree is approximately 50 metres (160 ft) high with a trunk circumference of 39 metres (128 ft). The canopy extends in a radius of approximately 30 metres (98 ft) from the trunk of the tree.
Most of the forest mapped as undisturbed in this area has been recorded as Mesophyll Vine Forest (Type 2A), with relatively small areas of Notophyll Vine Forest (Type 8). [ 1 ] Other areas in the TTA have also been historically impacted by selective logging operations, including large block of Complex Mesophyll Vine Forest (type 1A) on alluvium ...