Refugia for biological diversity in arid and semi-arid Australia
Biodiversity Series, Paper No. 4
S.R. Morton, J. Short and R.D. Barker, with an Appendix by G.F. Griffin and G. Pearce
Biodiversity Unit
Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories, 1995
4. Foci of biological diversity in Western Australia (continued)
4.12. Yalgoo
Area
36,115 km².
Primary land-use
Extensive sheep grazing.
National Parks and Nature Reserves
None identified.
Management problems
Land degradation due to over-grazing and to goats (Freudenberger 1993; Wilcox and Cunningham 1994).
ANZECC-listed species
No information.
Species that are regionally endemic
The skink Ctenotus alleni (Cogger 1992).
Relict populations
An agamid lizard Egernia stokesii badia (Cogger et al. 1993, pp. 97-9).
Other significant populations
Leigh et al. (1984) listed the plants Eriostemon nutans (p. 316) and Stylidium xanthopsis (p. 336).
Wetland sites
No information.
Refugia
None identified.