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IBRA Regions
The Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) is a biogeography, biogeographic regionalisation of Australia developed by the Australian government's Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities (Australia), 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, 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 Australasian realm, biogeographic realm, as developed by the World Wide Fund for Nature. Based on this system, the world is also split into Biome#Olson & Dinerstein (1998) biomes for WWF / Global 200, 14 terrestrial habitats, also called biomes, of which eight are shared by Australia. The Australian land mass is divided into 89 bioregions and 419 Terrestrial ecoregion, subr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation For Australia, Version 7
Interim may refer to: Temporary organizational arrangements (general concept) *Provisional government, emergency government during the creation, collapse, or crisis of a state; also called interim government *Caretaker government, temporary rule between governments in a parliamentary democracy; also called interim government *Acting president, interim head of a state *Acting (law), designation of a person temporarily exercising the authority of any position *Interim management, in business *Regent, temporary ruler standing in for monarch currently unable to exercise rule *Locum, a person who temporarily fulfills the duties of another Legal concepts and procedures *Interim order, court order in effect pending outcome of a case *Interim trustee, concept in United States bankruptcy law *Interim appeal, a partial appeal in United States law *Interim interdict in Scots law, a temporary injunction *Judicial interim release, part of Canadian bail law Temporary peaces *Regensburg Inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nhulunbuy (biogeographic Subregion)
Nhulunbuy () is a town and locality in the far north of the Northern Territory of Australia. Founded on the Gove Peninsula in north-east Arnhem Land when a bauxite mine and deep water port were established in the late 1960s, the town's economy largely revolved around its alumina refinery until it closed in May 2014. In the , the locality of Nhulunbuy had a population of 3,350 people. History This area in Northeast Arnhem Land has been home to the Yolngu Aboriginal people for at least 40,000 years. Matthew Flinders, in his circumnavigation of Australia in 1803, met the Macassan trading fleet near present-day Nhulunbuy, an encounter that led to the establishment of settlements on Melville Island and the Cobourg Peninsula. A beach close to the township is named Macassan Beach in honour of this encounter. In 1963, an Australian Government decision excised part of the land for a bauxite mine and alumina refinery to be operated by the North Australian Bauxite and Alumina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
