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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
• Habitats
• Plants
• Nature refuges
• Community role
• CyberRangers

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See also: Desert upland factsheets

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