Tanami bioregion
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 The interim Australian bioregions, with Tanami in red | |||||||||||||||
| Area | 259,972.77 km2 (100,376.0 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
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Tanami (Warlpiri: Jarnami)[1] is an interim Australian bioregion, comprising 25,997,277 hectares (64,240,670 acres) in the Northern Territory and Western Australia.[2] It is part of the Great Sandy-Tanami desert ecoregion.
The bioregion has the code TAN.[3] There are three subregions.[3]
| IBRA regions and subregions: IBRA7 | ||||
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| IBRA region / subregion | IBRA code | Area | States | Location in Australia |
| Tanami | TAN | 25,997,277 hectares (64,240,670 acres) | NT / WA |
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| Tanami Desert | TAN01 | 20,769,151 hectares (51,321,690 acres) | ||
| Wycliffe | TAN02 | 1,600,893 hectares (3,955,890 acres) | ||
| Sandover | TAN03 | 3,627,233 hectares (8,963,090 acres) | ||
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ "English - Warlpiri".
- ^ Environment Australia. "Revision of the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) and Development of Version 5.1 – Summary Report" (PDF). Department of the Environment and Water Resources, Government of Australia. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ 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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