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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


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.

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