Everyday habitat
Saltmarsh
Low, salt-tolerant plants on flats flooded by the highest tides, between land and mangroves or mudflats.
Description drafted with AI help; a person hasn't reviewed it yet.
Also called: salt marsh, samphire flats, coastal saltmarsh
- System
- PLOT everyday habitats, 0.1.0
- Published by
- PLOT
- Places on the record
- 4
- Names in other systems
- 11
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Level of detail
From the broadest name to the most detailed. Dashed links are PLOT's proposals, waiting for a person to confirm them.
Realm
Everyday
- Saltmarsh
Global
National
State
See
Where it is
Each figure is one type's own, in its own layer and year. They're never added together.
Cherry Lake
- Cherry Lake salt marsh habitatsReported by a sourceno extent
Jawbone Flora and Fauna Reserve
- Coastal SaltmarshModelled, 2005 · EVC 99.0 ha
- Coastal Saltmarsh/Coastal Dune Grassland/Coastal Dune Scrub/Coastal Headland Scrub MosaicModelled, 2005 · EVC 9000.63 ha
- Coastal SaltmarshModelled, before 1750 · EVC 9
See
What lives here
- Red-necked Stint feeds in Jawbone white mangrove and saltmarsh community
Compare
Same habitat, different names
| Is | In another system | Who says so | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| overlaps | Coastal saltmarshes and reedbedsiucn-get MFT1.3 | PLOT's proposal | everywhere it applies |
| part of | Chenopod Shrublands, Samphire Shrublands and Forblandsnvis-7 MVG-22 | PLOT's proposal | everywhere it applies |
| broader than | Coastal Saltmarshvic-evc 9 | PLOT's proposal | everywhere it applies |
| overlaps | Coastal Saltmarsh/Coastal Dune Grassland/Coastal Dune Scrub/Coastal Headland Scrub Mosaicvic-evc 900 | PLOT's proposal | everywhere it applies |
| overlaps |
Protect
Protection and status
Conservation status belongs to the official types below this one, by bioregion. Which listed communities may include patches of it comes from each listing's advice, read and checked by a person: not yet extracted (coming). A patch is shown as a listed community only when a source says it meets the listing.
Understand
How it's doing
Not yet assessed. PLOT gives a level only with a published method. Where a system publishes a benchmark for a type (a description of a good example), it is shown here as what it could be, never as a score. Benchmarks linked as sources (coming)
Mend
Next steps and patterns
Next steps that name this habitat, and patterns of repair (coming)
Traditional Owner knowledge: none is shown for this habitat yet. It appears only from Traditional Owner organisations' own published statements, or with their consent. A Traditional Owner organisation can add its statement or ask for a correction.
Check
How we know
- PLOT everyday habitats, PLOT, 0.1.0. Licence PLOT's own draft classification (wording AI-drafted, for review), checked by Robert Laing (PLOT owner) on 2026-10-22
- Mapping anything into it is a PLOT method, labelled as such. Realms follow the IUCN GET realms.
- Modelled extents: layer vic/evc1750, map release vic-2026-10-22, cut to each place's confirmed outline. evc-extent/0.1: modelled EVC polygons intersected with the place's confirmed outline in EPSG:9473 (GDA2020 Australian Albers), hectares summed per EVC and layer; pieces under 0.1 ha left out
- Modelled extents: layer vic/evc2005, map release vic-2026-10-22, cut to each place's confirmed outline. evc-extent/0.1: modelled EVC polygons intersected with the place's confirmed outline in EPSG:9473 (GDA2020 Australian Albers), hectares summed per EVC and layer; pieces under 0.1 ha left out