Western central Australia
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Scientific Code
(AA1303)
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Ecoregion Category
Australasia
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Size
60,200 square miles
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Status
Relatively Stable/Intact
Justification of Ecoregion Delineation
The Gibson Desert ecoregion comprises the ‘Gibson Desert’ IBRA (Thackway and Cresswell 1995).
References
Thackway, R. and I. D. Cresswell. editors. 1995. An Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia: a framework for establishing the national system of reserves, Version 4.0. Australian Nature Conservation Agency, Canberra.
Prepared by: Angas Hopkins
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