Bellarine Landscape Planning
| Landscape Plans for Corangamite - Otway Plain Bioregion - August 2003. The Landscape Plan for the Bellarine Landscape Zone is published as a component of this document (above). Only section relevant to the Bellarine Landscape Zone are shown below. Bellarine Landscape Zone The Landscape Plan for the Bellarine Landscape Zone - February 2003, was produced in collaboration between R. Hunt & C. Grant - Flora and Fauna, South West Regional Services, DSE; and K. Lowe - Parks Flora and Fauna Division, DSE. |  |
The Otway Plain bioregion covers approximately 238 thousand hectares extending over five local government areas and two catchment management regions. It extends from just east of Princetown to the Bellarine Peninsula, and includes outlying areas at Werribee, Glenaire and Apollo Bay. Most of the bioregion is private freehold dominated by agriculture and there are several large blocks of public land. Only 31% still has a cover of native vegetation, and less than 15% is in formal reserves. However, it still contains examples of most of its original vegetation types, and includes extensive areas of significant wetland habitat. Two species of fauna recorded in the bioregion are extinct, whilst of the remaining flora and fauna species, 118 flora species are considered rare or threatened, and 73 fauna species are considered near threatened or threatened in the Otway Plain bioregion. Of the 87 plants there are 55 Monocotyledons, 60 Dicotyledons, 1 Ferns and Allies and 2 Mosses. Of the 73 fauna species, there are 9 mammals, 56 birds, 4 reptiles/amphibians, 3 fish and 1 invertebrate. The bioregion is dominated by flat to gently undulating plains of Tertiary deposits. Soil types and fertility vary across the bioregion, with the coastal plains around Anglesea having soils of low fertility, and the volcanic soils of the Bellarine Peninsula having more fertile soils. A number of regionally important rivers transect the bioregion, mostly originating in the Otway Ranges and flowing down to the coast. These include the Barwon, Gellibrand, and Aire Rivers. The Moorabool and Werribee Rivers are exceptions, in that they originate in the Victorian Midlands. A number of large lakes and wetlands occur in the bioregion, including Lake Connewarre/Reedy Lake, Swan Bay, Lake Borrie, the Werribee sewage treatment lagoons, Lake Modewarre and Wurdiboluc Reservoir.
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This document was last reviewed on 25/10/2011