Monkey Mia, Western Australia Photograph by M. Brauwer   Western coast of Australia Deserts and Xeric Shrublands   34,900 square miles (90,500 square kilometers) -- about the size of South Carolina and New Hampshire combined 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 Carnarvon Xeric Shrublands ecoregion comprises the ‘Carnavon’ IBRA (Thackway and Cresswell 1995).

References

Thackway, R. and I. D. Cresswell. editors. 1995. An Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia: a framework for establishing the national system of reserves, Version 4.0. Australian Nature Conservation Agency, Canberra.

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