Stirling Range National Park, Western Australia Photograph by Mike Fields   Southeastern Australia Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub   44,600 square miles (115,500 square kilometers) -- about the size of Pennsylvania Critical/Endangered

· Location and General Description
· Biodiversity Features
· Current Status
· Threats
· Ecoregion Justification
· References
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Location and General Description

Biodiversity Features

Current Status

Types and Severity of Threats

Justification of Ecoregion Delineation

Justification for ecoregion delineation: The Esperance Mallee ecoregion includes two IBRAs, the ‘Mallee’ and the ‘Esperance Plains’ regions (Thackway and Cresswell 1995). This ecoregion is part of the ‘South-west Botanical Province’ Centre of Plant Diversity, and includes both the ‘Roe’ and ‘Eyre’ Districts (Beard 1995). The Esperance Mallee also represents the eastern extension of the ‘South-west Australia’ Endemic Bird Area (Stattersfield et al. 1998). Vegetation is predominately shrublands and open shrublands of mallee and the climate is mediterranean.

References

Beard, J. S. 1995. South-west Botanical Province. Pages 484 – 489 in S. D. Davis, V. H. Heywood and A. C. Hamilton. editors. Centres of Plant Diversity. Volume 2. Asia, Australasia, and the Pacific. WWF/IUCN, IUCN Publications Unit, Cambridge, UK.

Stattersfield, A. J., M. J. Crosby, A. J. Long, and D. C. Wedge. 1998. Endemic Bird Areas of the World. Priorities for biodiversity conservation. BirdLife Conservation Series No. 7. BirdLife International, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

For more general information on this ecoregion, go to the WildWorld version of this description.