Tanami Desert, Northern Territory, Australia Photograph by www.c2ctours.com   Northwestern Australia Deserts and Xeric Shrublands   317,800 square miles (823,000 square kilometers) -- about the size of Texas and Iowa combined 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 Great Sandy-Tanami Desert ecoregion is a vast area including three IBRAs: ‘Little Sandy Desert’, ‘Great Sandy Desert’, and ‘Tanami’ (Thackway and Cresswell 1995). The region consists of desert sandridges and sandplains with tree steppe, shrubs, and open hummock grassland.

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.