4-756: The Darwin Coastal , an IBRA bioregion , is located in the Northern Territory of Australia . It comprises an area of 2,843,199 hectares (7,025,700 acres) of central Arnhem Land , in the Top End of the Northern Territory. This Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) bioregion is generally flat, low-lying coastlands , drained by several large rivers. Vegetation communities include eucalypt forest and woodlands with tussock grass and hummock grass understorey. Land use
8-535: 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 is a land area made up of a group of interacting ecosystems that are repeated in similar form across
12-460: 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 a national reserve system . The first version of IBRA was developed in 1993–94 and published in 1995. Within the broadest scale, Australia is
16-412: Is mixed, with urban development around Darwin , Aboriginal land, pastoral leases and conservation reserves. Major population centres are Darwin and Palmerston . This Northern Territory geography article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia The Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia ( IBRA )
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