Stony Plains, an interim Australian bioregion, comprises 13,166,372 hectares (32,534,810 acres), and is part of two state/territories of Australia: the Northern Territory and South Australia.[1][2]
| Stony Plains Australia | |||||||||||||||
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 The interim Australian bioregions, with Stony Plains in red | |||||||||||||||
| Area | 131,663.72 km2 (50,835.6 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
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The bioregion has the code STP.[3] There are seven subregions.[3]
| IBRA regions and subregions: IBRA7 | ||||
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| IBRA region / subregion | IBRA code | Area | States | Location in Australia |
| Stony Plains | STP | 13,166,372 hectares (32,534,810 acres) | SA |
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| Breakaways | STP01 | 2,444,385 hectares (6,040,210 acres) | ||
| Oodnadatta | STP02 | 2,593,717 hectares (6,409,210 acres) | ||
| Murnpeowie | STP03 | 2,910,385 hectares (7,191,720 acres) | ||
| Peake-Dennison Inlier | STP04 | 158,623 hectares (391,970 acres) | ||
| Macumba | STP05 | 693,282 hectares (1,713,140 acres) | ||
| Witjira | STP06 | 1,677,111 hectares (4,144,230 acres) | ||
| Baltana | STP07 | 2,688,870 hectares (6,644,300 acres) | ||
See also
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References
edit- ^ Environment Australia. "Revision of the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) and Development of Version 5.1 - Summary Report". Department of the Environment and Water Resources, Australian Government. Archived from the original on 5 September 2006. Retrieved 31 January 2007.
- ^ IBRA Version 6.1 data
- ^ a b "Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA7) regions and codes". Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Commonwealth of Australia. 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
Further reading
edit- Thackway, R and I D Cresswell (1995) An interim biogeographic regionalisation for Australia : a framework for setting priorities in the National Reserves System Cooperative Program Version 4.0 Canberra : Australian Nature Conservation Agency, Reserve Systems Unit, 1995. ISBN 0-642-21371-2
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