How do we link ecosystem services, environmental management and grazing managment systems, so that we holistically and sustainably manage Jingei at both the landscape and the property scale in tandem.

1. The Jingeri Food web
By Tracy and
Sine Finnegan.

2. What makes up a food
web?
A food web is made up of lots of food chains
They consist of Producers, Consumers and decomposers
They have large amounts of herbivores and carnivores
The producer: sun or energy is converted into living plants
The consumer: bird or koala, dingo or eagle
the decomposer: fungi and soil animals
Together all these are linked to create ecosystems

3. What parts of a food
web make up the
Jingeri Ecosystem?

4. Primary producers
Energy from the sun
Nutrients in the soil
Energy stored in the
plant and some
escapes (heat)

5. Consumers
Herbivores
Carnivores

6. Decomposers:
Natures recyclers
minerals
Manure/compost/
dead things
Soils in which the primary producers grow
Fungi:
• Yeasts
• Molds
• Mushrooms
Soil animals:
• worms
• dung beetles
• centipedes

7. How does all that fit together???
Consumers
Decomposers
Producers

8. What special
ecosystems do we have
at Jingeri?

9. Glossy Black Cockatoo
Open Woodland/she-oak ecosystems
Allocasuarina = She-oak
• Open grassy woodland
• Mixed Eucalypts
• Nests in large hollows in old trees
• Glossy Blacks will only eat the cones from the
she-oaks
• The cones are called “orts”
• Under threat because of land clearing of its
food & habitat trees

10. Long Nosed Potoroo
Open Woodland Ecosystems
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Open grassy eucalypt forests
With a diversity of native grass species
Eats fungi, seeds and insects
Fungi is very important part of their diet
Fungi essential to make healthy soils
As a decomposer it is responsible for
Nutrient cycling into soils and plants
• Helps make the nutrients trapped inside
dead plants and animals available for the
plants and animals to use for energy.
• Under threat by predation from dogs,
cats and foxes.
• Known to live in the same ecosystem as
the Hastings River Mouse and the
Eastern Bristle Bird.

11. Hastings River Mouse
Eastern Bristle Bird

12. Koala
Eucalypt forest Ecosystems
• Eats only eucalyptus leaves
from 19 out of 600 species of
eucalypt trees.
• Relies on healthy ground
cover between food and
habitat trees to move safely
on the ground.
• Threatened by habitat loss
and predation from dogs and
foxes.
• Suffers from a disease called
Chlamydia which occurs in
stressed animals.
• Koalas are becoming more
and more threatened in SEQ
because of humans

13. Everything in an ecosystem is
connected to everything else:
They are “interconnected”
Fungi & Soil
animals:
Nutrient &
carbon
cycling
Carnivores:
Soils
Predators
Suns
energy
Plants:
Herbivores:
Consumers
Water &
carbon
cycling

14. What have we learned?
• Everything in a foodweb is connected
Food
Chain
Food Web
• Lots of different foodwebs make up
an Ecosystem
• Healthy soils are vital to make sure
energy and nutrients are available
plants
Ecosystem

15. Thank you for listening 
What kinds of
ecosystems or foodwebs
are there in your back
yard?