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• Aquatic biodiversity assessment and mapping method (AquaBAMM)
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• Desert Uplands Strategic Land Resource Assessment
  • 1. Introduction
    • 1.1 Project background
    • 1.2 Project objectives
    • 1.3 The study area
  • 2. Climate
    • 2.1 Introduction
    • 2.2 Rainfall
    • 2.3 Temperature
    • 2.4 Evaporation
    • 2.5 Climate and plant growth
    • 2.6 Climate and erosion
  • 3. Geomorphology
    • 3.1 Introduction
    • 3.2 Bioregions of the study area
    • 3.3 Subregions of the Desert Uplands
    • 3.4 Significant geomorphic features of the region
      • 3.4.1 Laterite
      • 3.4.2 Sand sheets in the Alice Tableland and Jericho Plains subregions
      • 3.4.3 Escarpments
      • 3.4.4 Alluvial fans
      • 3.4.5 Ancestral lakes
      • 3.4.6 Internally drained lakes
      • 3.4.7 The Lake Galilee catchment
      • 3.4.8 Diversion of the Flinders River
      • 3.4.9 Artesian springs
      • 3.4.10 Links to the Great Artesian Basin
      • 3.4.11 The Cape and Campaspe River catchments
      • 3.4.12 The Nulla and Toomba basalts
      • 3.4.13 The Charters Towers Metamorphics
      • 3.4.14 The Ravenswood Granodiorite Complex and Lolworth Igneous Complex
  • 4. Soils
    • 4.1 Introduction
    • 4.2 Soil classification systems
    • 4.3 Soils of the study area
      • 4.3.1 Chromosols (CH)
      • 4.3.2 Vertosols (VE)
      • 4.3.3 Kandosols (KA)
      • 4.3.4 Tenosols (TE)
      • 4.3.5 Sodosols (SO)
      • 4.3.6 Rudosols (RU)
      • 4.3.7 Dermosols (DE)
      • 4.3.8 Hydrosols (HY)
      • 4.3.9 Calcarosols (CA)
      • 4.3.10 Ferrosols (FE)
  • 5. Vegetation
    • 5.1 Introduction
    • 5.2 Major vegetation communities of the Desert Uplands
      • 5.2.1 Naturally open grasslands and heathlands
      • 5.2.2 Acacia forests and woodlands
      • 5.2.3 Bloodwoods
      • 5.2.4 Boxes
      • 5.2.5 Gums
      • 5.2.6 Ironbarks
      • 5.2.7 Yellowjacket
  • 6. Land use implications
    • 6.1 Introduction
    • 6.2 Land Management Units (LMUs)
      • 6.2.1 Land Management Unit 1
      • 6.2.2 Land Management Unit 2
      • 6.2.3 Land Management Unit 3
      • 6.2.4 Land Management Unit 4
      • 6.2.5 Land Management Unit 5
      • 6.2.6 Land Management Unit 6
      • 6.2.7 Land Management Unit 7
      • 6.2.8 Land Management Unit 8
      • 6.2.9 Land Management Unit 9
      • 6.2.10 Land Management Unit 10
      • 6.2.11 Land management unit 11
      • 6.2.12 Land Management Unit 12
      • 6.2.13 Land Management Unit 13
      • 6.2.14 Land Management Unit 14
      • 6.2.15 Land Management Unit 15
  • Appendix 1. The land resource assessment team
• Marine biodiversity
• Regional ecosystems
  • Introduction and status
  • Regional ecosystem framework
  • Explanation of fields in RE descriptions
  • Fire management guidelines
  • Land zone definitions
  • Conditions of use
  • Desert uplands
    • Introduction
    • Common names
    • Botanical names
  • How to download REDD

See also:

• Conservation Management Profiles
• Wildlife
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Cape York Peninsula

The Natural Heritage Significance of Cape York Peninsula

Executive summary

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Criteria for Assessing Natural Heritage Significance

Chapter 3. Evaluation of CYPLUS Reports and Data

Chapter 4. Geoevolution/Geodiversity

Chapter 5. Bioevolution/Biodiversity

Chapter 6. Natural Intergrity/Natural Processes

Chapter 7. Contribution to Knowledge/Aesthetics

Chapter 8. Summary/References/Figures/Tables

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Last updated: 28 November 2003

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