Large numbers of fruit bats feed and roost in the extensive paperbark forests. Riparian closed forests of paperbark trees and Pandanus occur along drainage lines. Paperbarks are also present especially near water, such as the weeping paperbark. Black flying foxes eat pollen and nectar from native eucalyptus, lilypillies, paperbark, and turpentine trees. This was made either of the string itself, or of other material, including paperbark. In Australia, it occurs in eucalypt forests, melaleuca forests, woodland and paperbark forests. Males have been collected from glades in rainforest and females from adjacent paperbark swampland. Dependent ecosystems include freshwater and estuarine wetlands, mangrove and paperbark communities, and surface-water fauna. Rocky Mountain Maple, Red Alder, Paperbark Birch, Chokecherry, cottonwood, and poplar. Paperbark trees flourish on swampy land, helped by inundations when the reservoir over fills. Paperbark woodland occurs behind the samphire belt, with eucalypt woodland on higher ground. "Mudrooroo" means "paperbark" in the Bibbulmun language group spoken by the Noongar.