3-615: The Gulf Plains , an interim Australian bioregion (IBRA), is located in the Northern Territory and Queensland , comprising 22,041,825 hectares (54,466,540 acres). It is one of 89 such bioregions defined in Australia, with 419 subregions as of IBRA version 7, compared with the 85 bioregions and 403 subregions described in IBRA6.1. The code for the bioregion is GUP . This Northern Territory geography article
6-511: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Queensland location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia The Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia ( IBRA ) is a biogeographic regionalisation of Australia developed by the Australian government's Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population, and Communities . It
9-597: Was developed for use as a planning tool, for example for the establishment of a national reserve system . The first version of IBRA was developed in 1993–94 and published in 1995. Within the broadest scale, Australia is a major part of the Australasia biogeographic realm, as developed by the World Wide Fund for Nature . Based on this system, the world is also split into 14 terrestrial habitats , of which eight are shared by Australia. The Australian land mass
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