Coober Pedy, Australia Photograph by Dr. Tim Berra   Southern central Australia Deserts and Xeric Shrublands   145,500 square miles (376,900 square kilometers) -- about the size of Montana Vulnerable

· 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 Tirari-Sturt Stony Desert includes four whole IBRA’s: ‘Stony Plains’, ‘Gawler’, ‘Flinders and Olary Ranges’, and ‘Broken Hill Complex’ (Thackway and Cresswell 1995). It is a vast region of chenopod shrublands, belah and mallee open woodlands, and mulga woodlands and scrubland with extensive gibber plains in the Sturt Stony Desert.

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.