Gibson Desert, Western Australia Photograph by www.c2ctours.com   Western central Australia Deserts and Xeric Shrublands   60,200 square miles (155,900 square kilometers) -- about twice the size of South Carolina Relatively Stable/Intact

· 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

The Gibson Desert ecoregion comprises the ‘Gibson Desert’ 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.