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Flinders Lofty Block is an interim Australian bioregion located in South Australia.[1] It has an area of 6,615,765 hectares (16,347,910 acres),[2] which includes the Mount Lofty Ranges and Flinders Ranges.

Subregions

Flinders Lofty Block consists of six subregions

  • Mount Lofty Ranges (FLB01) – 300,580 hectares (742,700 acres)
  • Broughton (FLB02) – 1,032,918 hectares (2,552,400 acres)
  • Olary Spur (FLB03) – 1,745,479 hectares (4,313,170 acres)
  • Southern Flinders (FLB04) – 728,317 hectares (1,799,710 acres)
  • Northern Flinders (FLB05) – 1,846,804 hectares (4,563,550 acres)
  • Central Flinders (FLB06) – 961,667 hectares (2,376,330 acres)

The Mount Lofty Ranges and Broughton subregions are part of the Mount Lofty woodlands ecoregion.[3] The other subregions are part of the Tirari–Sturt stony desert ecoregion.

References

  1. ^ Environment Australia. "Revision of the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) and Development of Version 5.1 – Summary Report" (PDF). Department of the Environment and Water Resources, Australian Government. Retrieved 3 May 2022. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ^ "Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA7) regions and codes". Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Commonwealth of Australia. 2012. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  3. ^ "Mount Lofty woodlands". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund.

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