3-501: The Sturt Plateau , an interim Australian bioregion , is located in the Northern Territory , and covers an area of 9,857,531 hectares (24,358,490 acres). The bioregion has the code STU . There are three subregions. The Sturt Plateau bioregion consists of gently undulating plains on lateritised Cretaceous sandstones. Its earths are neutral, sandy, and red and yellow. The vegetation is variable-barked bloodwood woodland with
6-497: A spinifex understorey. 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 ) 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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