General Vegetation Structural Description, Cumberland Plain SuperSite, Core 1 ha, 2015

The Cumberland Plain SuperSite is located in remnant Eucalyptus woodland on the Cumberland Plain on the Hawkesbury campus of the University of Western Sydney near Richmond New South Wales. The Cumberland Plain SuperSite core hectare is located in Shale Gravel Transition Forest as mapped by Benson (1992) and Tozer (2003). The dominant canopy species are Eucalyptus fibrosa and Eucalyptus moluccana with Melaleuca decora commonly occurring as a small tree. The shrub layer is dominated by Bursaria spinosa with small shrubs, forbs, grasses and ferns occurring in the ground layer.