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Type: Article
Published: 2015-05-25
Page range: 261-277
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A revised area taxonomy of phytogeographical regions within the Australian Bioregionalisation Atlas

School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW, Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia
Institute for Applied Ecology and Collaborative Research Network for Murray-Darling Basin Futures, University of Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research, CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia Division of Environmental Biology, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia 22230 USA
National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, Birdwood Avenue, South Yarra, VIC 3141, Australia
area nomenclature Central Desert Central Queensland Great Sandy Desert Interzone Northern Northern Desert Nullarbor Southwestern Australia General

Abstract

The phytogeographical regions and sub-regions of Australia are revised in light of new data from a recent analysis by González-Orozco, Ebach et al. (2014). The new revision includes two new regions, Northern regio nova and Northern Desert regio nova, and five new sub-regions, Nullarbor sub-regio nova, Central Desert sub-regio nova, Great Sandy Desert Interzone sub-regio nova, Central Queensland sub-regio nova and, Southwestern sub-regio nova. This new revised version of the phytogeographical regions and sub-regions of Australia’s land plants provides an updated classification based on historical nomenclature. The analysis by González-Orozco, Ebach et al. (2014) is a biogeographically centered classification that generated the first exclusively taxonomic regionalisation of Australia’s land plants, used here to update the ABA phytogeographical regions.