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Great Knot - South Eastern Queensland: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Calidris tenuirostris

Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable

Commonwealth status: Critically Endangered

Last updated: 13 Oct 2021

Distribution of the species within this region

The Great Knot is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the South Eastern Queensland Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region	Known or predicted	Geographic restrictions within region
Burringbar-Conondale Ranges	Known	Within 5 km of coast or tidal influenced water bodies
Clarence Lowlands	Known	Within 5 km of coast or tidal influenced water bodies
Scenic Rim	Predicted	Within 5 km of coast or tidal influenced water bodies
Sunshine Coast-Gold Coast Lowlands	Known	Within 5 km of coast or tidal influenced water bodies

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Great Knot - South Eastern Queensland is known to be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information about it.

Forested wetlands
- Coastal Floodplain Wetlands
  - Coastal Creekflat Layered Grass-Sedge Swamp Forest
  - Estuarine Sea Rush Swamp Oak Forest
  - Estuarine Swamp Oak Twig-rush Forest
  - Estuarine Swamp Oak-Mangrove Forest
  - Far North Creekflat Paperbark Swamp Forest
  - Far North Estuarine Swamp Oak Forest
  - Far North Swamp Oak-Tuckeroo Swamp Fringe Forest
  - Far South Floodplain Wetland Paperbark Scrub
  - Hunter Coast Lake Flats Apple Forest
  - Hunter Coast Swamp Oak Rainforest
  - Hunter Estuarine Melaleuca nodosa Scrub
  - Northern Creekflat Eucalypt-Paperbark Mesic Swamp Forest
  - Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine-Paperbark Forest
  - Northern Swamp Oak-Paperbark Forest
  - South Coast Floodplain Wetland Paperbark Scrub
  - Southern Estuarine Swamp Paperbark Creekflat Scrub
  - Sydney Hinterland Sandy Creekflat Shrub Forest
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- Coastal Swamp Forests
  - Clarence Lowland Paperbark Sedge Swamp Woodland
  - Coastal Floodplain Swamp Paperbark Scrub
  - Coastal Sand Swamp Mahogany Dry Forest
  - Coastal Sands Swamp Mahogany Rush Forest
  - Far North Floodplain Paperbark-Swamp Oak Forest
  - Far North Mesophyll Paperbark Swamp Forest
  - Far North Paperbark Fern Swamp Forest
  - Far North Paperbark Gahnia Swamp Forest
  - Far North Sands Swamp Turpentine-Paperbark Forest
  - Far North Swamp Oak-Paperbark Tidal Forest
  - Hunter Coast Paperbark-Swamp Mahogany Forest
  - Hunter Coast Sandplain Sedge Paperbark Wetland
  - Lower North Creekflat Mahogany Swamp Forest
  - Northern Estuarine Paperbark Sedge Forest
  - Northern Floodplain Paperbark Fern Swamp Forest
  - Northern Lowland Orange Gum Dry Swamp Forest
  - Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine-Mahogany Forest
  - Northern Melaleuca quinquenervia Swamp Forest
  - Northern Paperbark Banksia Littoral Forest
  - Northern Paperbark-Swamp Mahogany Saw-sedge Forest
  - Northern Sands Paperbark Sedge Low Forest
  - Northern Sands Swamp Mahogany Shrubby Rush Forest
  - Northern Sandy Alluvium Heathy Swamp Forest
  - Shoalhaven Lowland Flats Wet Swamp Forest
  - Sydney Hinterland Creekflat Paperbark Scrub
  - Tomago Drooping Red Gum Swamp Woodland
  - Wyong Paperbark-Woollybutt Swamp Forest
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Freshwater wetlands
- Coastal Freshwater Lagoons
  - Castlereagh Gravel Sedgeland
  - Coast Sands Baumea articulata Sedgeland
  - Coast Sands Cladium Sedgeland
  - Coast Sands Lepironia Sedgeland
  - Coastal Floodplain Phragmites Reedland
  - Estuarine Reedland
  - Far North Floodplain Fern-Forb Wetland
  - Far North Floodplain Forb-Sedge Wetland
  - Far North Floodplain Paperbark Sedge Wetland
  - Foredune Swale Marsh
  - Northern Lower Floodplain Eleocharis Wetland
  - Northern Sands Baloskion-Baumea Wetland
  - Northern Sands Baumea-Eleocharis Sedgeland
  - Northern Sands Chorizandra Sedgeland
  - Northern Sands Water Couch Wetland
  - Northern Sandy Floodplain Sedge Paperbark Wetland
  - Pambula Dune Swale Red Gum Swamp Woodland
  - South Coast Dune Sea Spray Wetland
  - South Coast Sands Shrub Swamp
  - Southern Lower Floodplain Freshwater Wetland
  - Southern Sands Freshwater Lagoon Wetland
  - Spirodella freshwater wetland
  - Sydney Coastal Headland Lagoon Sedgeland
  - Sydney Creekflat Wetland
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- Coastal Heath Swamps
  - Coastal Sydney Sand Saw-sedge Wet Shrubland
  - Hunter Coast Grasstree Graminoid Swamp Scrub
  - Lower North Sands Swamp Scrub
  - Lower North Sands Wallum Bottlebrush Swamp Heath
  - Northern Sand Swale Fernland
  - Northern Sand Swale Paperbark Sedge Shrubland
  - Northern Sandplain Saw-sedge-Fern Swamp Heath
  - Northern Sandplain Wet Heath
  - Northern Sands Prickly Tea-tree Wet Shrubland
  - Sydney Coastal Sand Swamp Scrub
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- Inland Floodplain Swamps
  - Permanent and semi-permanent freshwater lakes wetland of the inland slopes and plains
  - Shallow freshwater wetland sedgeland in depressions on floodplains on inland alluivial plains and floodplains
  - Shallow marsh wetland of regularly flooded depressions on floodplains mainly in the semi-arid (warm) climatic zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)

Grasslands
- Maritime Grasslands
  - Spinifex Strandline Grassland
  - Tollgate Island Littoral Scrub

Heathlands
- Coastal Headland Heaths
  - Coastal Foredune Wattle Scrub
  - Far North Headland-Dune Scrub
  - Far Southeast Headland Scrub
  - Northern Lowland Graminoid Clay Heath
- South Coast Heaths
  - Far Southeast Coastal Lowland Heath
- Sydney Coastal Heaths
  - Shoalhaven Rockplate Heath
- Wallum Sand Heaths
  - Far North Sandplain Wallum Heath
  - Lower North Sandplain Wallum Heath
  - Northern Sandplain Damp Wallum Heath
  - Northern Sands Wallum Banksia-Allocasuarina Scrub

Miscellaneous ecosystems
- Marine environments
  - Dune and Shorelines
  - Oceans
- Terrestrial saline environments
  - non vegetated terrestrial saline environments
- Water bodies, rivers, lakes, streams (not wetlands)
  - Water bodies, rivers, lakes, streams (not wetlands)

Rainforests
- Subtropical Rainforests
  - Far North Estuarine Swamp Oak Rainforest

Saline wetlands
- Inland Saline lakes
  - Disturbed annual saltbush forbland on clay plains and inundation zones mainly of south-western NSW
- Mangrove Swamps
  - Far North Estuarine Mangrove-Swamp Oak Forest
  - Far North Mangrove Forest
  - Grey Mangrove-River Mangrove Forest
- Saltmarshes
  - Estuarine Club Rush-Arrowgrass Wetland
  - Paspalum vaginatum-Samphire Saltmarsh
  - Prickly Couch-Sea Rush Saltmarsh
  - Samphire Saltmarsh
  - South Coast Bracelet Honey-myrtle Sea Rush Saltmarsh
  - South Coast Selliera-Sea Rush Swamp Oak Saltmarsh
  - South Coast Spear-grass Saltmarsh
  - Sporobolus virginicus Saltmarsh
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