Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens

Anthony Hoffman ‘The Illawarra-Shoalhaven shrublands on volcanic outcrops ecological community’
2026-09-03 12:30 - 13:30 (Australia/Sydney) | ANBG Theatrette, Clunies Ross Street Acton ACT 2601, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
The Illawarra-Shoalhaven shrubland ecological community is dependent on the underlying substrate and provides a significant linkage between the rainforests and woodlands.
Abstract
The Illawarra-Shoalhaven shrubland ecological community occurs on exposed ridgetops and slopes from the Great Eastern Escarpment to the sea between Wollongong and Batemans Bay. They are dependent on the underlying substrate formed over 66 million years ago and provide a significant linkage between the rainforests and woodlands of this increasingly developed landscape.
Biography
Anthony is a senior assessment officer for Ecological Communities in the federal Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. For more than 15 years, he has worked closely with the national Threatened Species Scientific Committee and many other experts to identify, describe and conduct rigorous scientific assessments, and recommend priority conservation actions, for threatened ecological communities. Anthony has contributed to the listing of, and/or national conservation plans for, the 111 ecological communities that are recognised at the national level for priority protection, management and recovery.
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