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updated throughout the life of this plan, and new values may be recorded as understanding of the parks continues to improve. Values information will be periodically updated on the Parks Australia website.

Table S1.2 Description of key natural values in the South-east Network

Key natural value                                                               Park                     Ecosystem                                       Description
Diverse sponge community on rare mesophotic reef habitat in Bass Strait         Beagle                   Mesophotic rocky reefs                          Mesophotic reef is a rare ecosystem in the bioregions within Bass Strait. This reef is exposed to large currents leading to high biological productivity and provides habitat for a diverse range of sponge species.
Deep-sea coral communities on Huon seamounts                                    Huon                     Seamount reefs                                  The Huon seamounts, Australia's largest known cluster of seamounts, support globally significant, diverse, and fragile deep-sea coral communities.
Basketwork eel aggregation on Patience Seamount                                 Huon                     Seamount reefs; seamount sediments              This aggregation of basketwork eels is the only known spawning site for oceanic eels globally. Basketwork eels are apex scavengers and an important species of ecosystem functioning.
Fragile rare communities of black corals and octocorals                         Flinders                 Upper-slope reefs; shelf-incising canyons       The Flinders canyons and upper slope reef supports a high abundance of rare black corals and octocorals and conservation‑dependent shark species including the Harrisons dogfish and southern dogfish. The area is highly productive due to the current flowing from the Bass and Banks Straits.
Joe's Reef                                                                      Freycinet                Mesophotic rocky reefs; rariphotic shelf reefs  This structurally complex mesophotic/rariphotic reef is covered in a diverse invertebrate fauna including sponges, gorgonian fans, mushroom corals, and rare and vulnerable tree-forming black corals. It is a unique feature within the South-east Network.
Unique fish communities associated with rare outcroppings of shelf break reefs  Freycinet and Flinders   Rariphotic shelf reefs                          Shelf break reefs, a rare habitat within the typically sediment-draped shelf break, are a key habitat for striped trumpeter and blue eye trevalla.

Fish aggregation Main Matt                                                      Tasman Fracture          Seamount reefs; seamount sediments              The large aggregation of orange roughy, oreo dories and a diverse range of deep‑sea sharks at Main Matt seamount is unique to the South-east Network. These species are likely key species for ecosystem functioning.
High biomass deep sea communities in a unique geomorphic fracture zone          Tasman Fracture          Lower-slope reefs and sediments                 The Tasman Fracture Zone, an extensive ridge and trench complex in 2,000 m to 4,000 m water depth, is a unique geomorphic feature for the South-east Network. It provides habitat for a range of fauna not found elsewhere in the network, including habitat forming species such as anemones and barnacles.
Rare outcroppings of upper slope reef                                           Zeehan                   Upper-slope reefs                               The Zeehan upper slope reef is a rare reef habitat within the mud-draped slope landscape of western Tasmania. This reef is biologically diverse relative to other upper