Squirrel Glider - Central West: Distribution and vegetation associations

Distribution of the species within this region

The Squirrel Glider is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the Central West Catchment Management Region.

CMA sub-region	Known or predicted	Geographic restrictions within region
Bathurst	Predicted	None
Capertee	Predicted	None
Hill End	Known	None
Kerrabee	Known	None
Liverpool Range	Predicted	None
Lower Slopes	Predicted	None
Oberon	Predicted	None
Orange	Known
Pilliga	Known	None
Pilliga Outwash	Known
Talbragar Valley	Known	None
Upper Slopes	Known	None
Wollemi	Predicted	None

Important habitat requirements within region

Habitat	Details
Breeding Habitat	tree hollows >2 cm diameter in eucalypt forests and woodlands
Foraging Habitat	As per vegetation types, Mature, mix-age euc.esp. with flowering shrubs& wattles understorey. But can occur where no understorey if >1 sp.of Eucalypt. Can use patch <1ha & isolated trees if <75m of other patches.
Time of year species identifiable (if flora) or best detected (if fauna)	all

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Squirrel Glider - Central West is known to be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information about it. Find out more about vegetation formations, classes and types .

Detailed information on each of the Vegetation Types listed below can be found on the Biometric page of this website. The table has been seperated into Catchment Management Areas.

• Dry sclerophyll forests (shrub/grass sub-formation)
  • North-west Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Woodlands
    • Narrow-leaved Ironbark grassy woodland of the Brigalow Belt South bioregion
    • White Box - Red Stringybark shrubby woodlands on basalt slopes of the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • White Box - White Cypress Pine shrubby open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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  • Pilliga Outwash Dry Sclerophyll Forests
    • Red Ironbark - Brown Bloodwood shrubby woodland of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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  • Upper Riverina Dry Sclerophyll Forests
    • Red Stringybark - Red Box - Long-leaved Box - Inland Scribbly Gum tussock grass - shrub low open forest on hills in the southern part of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
    • Red Stringybark woodland of the dry slopes of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
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• Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
  • Southern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
    • Apple Box - Broad-leaved Peppermint dry open forest of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
    • Brittle Gum - Broad-leaved Peppermint - Red Stringybark open forest in the north-western part (Yass to Orange) of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
    • Broad-leaved Peppermint - Mountain Gum dry open forest of the Central Tablelands area of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
    • Slaty Gum woodland of the slopes of the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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  • Sydney Hinterland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
    • Sydney sandstone hinterland dry sclerophyll forests of the Sydney Basin Bioregion
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  • Sydney Montane Dry Sclerophyll Forests
    • Narrow-leaved Peppermint - Silvertop Ash - Monkey Gum shrubby open forest of the western Blue Mountains
    • Sydney Peppermint - Silvertop Ash shrubby low open forest of the upper Blue Mountains
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  • Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
    • Black Cypress Pine - Narrow-leaved Stringybark heathy woodland of the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • Brown Bloodwood - cypress - ironbark heathy woodland in the Pilliga region of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • Long-leaved Box - Red Box - Red Stringybark mixed open forest on hills and hillslopes in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
    • Mugga Ironbark - Buloke - Pillga Box - White Cypress Pine shrubby woodland on sandstone in the Dubbo region, south-western Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • Mugga Ironbark - Inland Grey Box shrubby woodland of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • Narrow-leaved Ironbark shrubby woodland of the Brigalow Belt South bioregion
    • Scribbly Gum - Brown Bloodwood woodland on volcanic slopes of the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • White Box - Tumbledown Red Gum - Long-leaved Box shrub/grass woodland on fine-grained sediments of the upper Macquarie River gorge, NSW central western slopes
    • White Box shrubby open forest on fine grained sediments on steep slopes in the Mudgee region of the of central western slopes of NSW
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• Forested wetlands
  • Eastern Riverine Forests
    • River Oak - Rough-barked Apple - red gum - box riparian tall woodland (wetland) of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
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  • Inland Riverine Forests
    • River Red Gum riparian tall woodland / open forest wetland in the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • River Red Gum swampy woodland wetland on cowals (lakes) and associated flood channels in central NSW
    • River Red Gum tall to very tall open forest / woodland wetland on rivers on floodplains mainly in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
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• Grassy woodlands
  • Floodplain Transition Woodlands
    • Mixed box eucalypt woodland on low sandy-loam rises on alluvial plains in central western NSW
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  • New England Grassy Woodlands
    • Silvertop Stringybark grass/herb forest of the Brigalow Belt South and Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
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  • Southern Tableland Grassy Woodlands
    • Apple Box - Yellow Box dry grassy woodland of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
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  • Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands
    • Apple Box - Blakely's Red Gum moist valley and footslopes grass-forb open forest of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
    • Blakely's Red Gum - White Box - Yellow Box - Black Cypress Pine box grass/shrub woodland on clay loam soils on undulating hills of central NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
    • Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy tall woodland of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
    • Fuzzy Box Woodland on alluvial brown loam soils mainly in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
    • Fuzzy Box woodland on colluvium and alluvial flats in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion (including Pilliga) and Nandewar Bioregion
    • Herbaceous White Box - Apple Box valley woodland of the NSW central western slopes
    • Rough-Barked Apple - red gum - Yellow Box woodland on alluvial clay to loam soils on valley flats in the northern NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • White Box - Black Cypress Pine - red gum +/- Mugga Ironbark shrubby woodland in hills of the NSW central western slopes
    • White Box - Rough-barked Apple alluvial woodland of the NSW central western slopes including in the Mudgee region
    • White Box - White Cypress Pine - Western Grey Box shrub/grass/forb woodland in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
    • White Box grassy woodland in the upper slopes sub-region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
    • White Box grassy woodland of the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • Yellow Box - Blakely's Red Gum grassy woodland of the Nandewar Bioregion
    • Yellow Box grassy tall woodland on alluvium or parna loams and clays on flats in NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
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• Wet sclerophyll forests (grassy sub-formation)
  • Southern Tableland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
    • Mountain Gum - Manna Gum open forest of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
    • Peppermint - Mountain Gum - Brown Barrel moist open forest of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
    • Snow Gum - Mountain Gum tussock grass-herb forest of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
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