All about the vernal pools at Parafield Airport

The Parafield Airport vernal pools have been studied by several people since they were first noted. This page will be regularly updated to include other studies as they are made available. The documents are arranged in date order from most recent to oldest, rather than being ordered by author's name. Hyperlinks are available to documents that are stored on the internet. Please contact Delta Environmental Consulting for information relating to the availablility of unlinked documents.

Seaman, R.L. (2002) Wetland Inventory for the Mount Lofty Ranges. Department for Environment and Heritage. Adelaide.

Coleman PSJ and Cook FC (2002) PAL Vernal Pools - Health, road/drainage impacts, mitigation and management, Delta Environmental Consulting, Adelaide

Coleman PSJ and Cook FC (2002) Bennett Road Vernal Pools – Understanding, the first step to restoration, Delta Environmental Consulting, Adelaide

Brown and Root (2001) Vegetation Survey No 2001/073 RN(N/A) Maxwell Road Extension, a survey conducted for Transport SA (now Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure), Adelaide.

Bush-Anew (2001) Remnant Indigenous Vegetation Survey – Area: Proposed Southern Road Corridor, Parafield Airport, a report prepared for Parafield Airport Limited, Adelaide.

Bush-Anew (2001) Remnant Indigenous Vegetation Survey – Area: Southern Commercial Development Area, Parafield Airport, a report prepared for Parafield Airport Limited, Adelaide.

Bush-Anew (2001) Remnant Indigenous Vegetation Survey – Area: Proposed Gerard Industries Site, Parafield Airport, a report prepared for Parafield Airport Limited, Adelaide.

Papers about vernal (and similar) pools occurring in other places in Australia and New Zealand

Gibson N, Keighery GJ, Lyons MN and BJ Keighery (2005) "Threatened plant communities of Western Australia. 2 The seasonal clay-based wetland communities of the South West" in Pacific Conservation Biology 11:4 287-301

Keighery, B.J. and GJ Keighery (2003). "Vernal pools of southern Western Australia" (ABSTRACT). In Monocots III: Abstracts: the Third International Conference on the Comparative Biology of the Monocotyledons & the Fourth International Symposium on Grass Systematics and Evolution: 31 March-4 April, 2003, Ontario, California Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont. p. 45

Johnson P and G Rogers (2003) "Ephemeral wetlands and their turfs in New Zealand", Science for Conservation 230, Department of Conservation, Wellington

Keeley JE and PH Zedler (1998) "Characterization and Global Distribution of Vernal Pools", pp 1-14 in: C.W. Witham, E.T. Bauder, D. Belk, W.R. Ferren Jr., and R. Ornduff (Editors). Ecology, Conservation, and Management of Vernal Pool Ecosystems – Proceedings from a 1996 Conference. California Native Plant Society, Sacramento, CA. 1998.

The Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment has assessed its wetlands and classified them into a large number of specific types. Vernal pools fit well into several of their 'grassy ephemeral wetland' types.

The Victorian grassy ephemeral wetlands most similar to the Parafield Airport vernal pools are currently nominated for inclusion as a threatened ecological community under the Commonwealth EPBC Act.

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