Near the goldfields, Western Australia Photograph by Alec Holm   Western Australia Deserts and Xeric Shrublands   177,800 square miles (460,500 square kilometers) -- about the size of New Mexico and Michigan combined 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 Western Australian Mulga Shrublands comprises two full IBRA’s, ‘Gascoyne’ and ‘Murchison’ (Thackway and Cresswell 1995). The region is characterized by tall mulga shrubs.

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.