3-491: Davenport Murchison Ranges is an interim Australian bioregion located in the Northern Territory . It has an area of 5,805,108 hectares (14,344,730 acres). The bioregion is part of the larger Great Sandy-Tanami desert ecoregion. Davenport Murchison Ranges is made up of three subregions: Less than 5% of the bioregion is in protected areas, the largest of which is Iytwelepenty / Davenport Range National Park in
6-582: 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 is divided into 89 bioregions and 419 subregions. Each region
9-518: The Barkly subregion. 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 was developed for use as a planning tool, for example for the establishment of
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