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Refugia for Biological Diversity in Arid and Semi-arid Australia

Biodiversity Series, Paper No. 4
Biodiversity Unit

S.R. Morton, J. Short and R.D. Barker
with an Appendix by G.F. Griffin and G. Pearce


6. FOCI OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY

6.1. Sturt Plateau

Area

99,226 km2.

Primary land-use

Cattle grazing, mining, tourism, Aboriginal land.

National Parks and Nature Reserves

None.

Management problems

Land degradation due to over-grazing (Wilcox and Cunningham 1994), and feral donkeys (McCool et al. 1981; Freeland and Choquenot 1990). Fire management is also an issue.

ANZECC-listed species

No information.

Species that are regionally endemic

No information.

Relict populations

No information.

Other significant populations

Woinarski and Fisher (1995a,b) found few notable vertebrate animals in country dominated by lancewood Acacia shirleyi.

Wetland sites

No information.

Refugia

None identified.

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