Pacific_Subtropical_Islands_(biogeographic_region)

Pacific Subtropical Islands

Pacific Subtropical Islands

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The Pacific Subtropical Islands is an interim Australian bioregion which includes Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island (both part of New South Wales). Its IBRA code is PSI.[1][2][3]

Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands constitute the Norfolk Islands, a Level 3 biogeographic unit (aka botanical country) in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions.[4]

Subregions

More information IBRA regions and subregions: IBRA7, IBRA region / subregion ...


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References

  1. [1]
    Environment Australia. "Revision of the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) and Development of Version 5.1 - Summary Report". Department of the Environment and Water Resources, Australian Government. Archived from the original on 2006-09-05. Retrieved 2007-01-31.
  2. [2]
    IBRA Version 6.1 data
  3. [3]
    "Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA7) regions and codes". Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Commonwealth of Australia. 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
  4. [4]
    R. K. Brummitt. 2001. World Geographic Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, Edition 2. Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh). http://rs.tdwg.org/wgsrpd/doc/data/

Further reading

  • Thackway, R and I D Cresswell (1995) An interim biogeographic regionalisation for Australia : a framework for setting priorities in the National Reserves System Cooperative Program Version 4.0 Canberra : Australian Nature Conservation Agency, Reserve Systems Unit, 1995. ISBN 0-642-21371-2
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