Australia: The Land Where Time Began

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Arid Zone Ecosystems of Central Australia

The arid zone of inland Australia can be divided into 5 main ecosystems

Desert ranges, desert rivers and salt lakes, spinifex grasslands, mulga woodlands & chenopod woodlands.

Aquatic Food Webs in Turbid Arid-Zone Rivers
Arid Australia - a Fresh Framework for its Ecology
Aquatic Food Webs
Biological Duricrust
Desert Ranges
Desert Rivers & Salt Lakes
Chenopod Shrublands
Claypans & Salt lakes
Cooper Creek
Cooper Creek Food Web
Mulga Woodlands
Riparian woodlands
Spinifex Grasslands
Spinifex Alliances
Tussock Grasslands

See Salt

Sources & Further reading

  • Penny Van Oosterzee, The Centre - The Natural history of Australia's Desert Regions, Reed Australia, 1993
  • Mary E White, Running Down, Water in a Changing Land, Kangaroo Press, 2000
  • Mary E White, After the Greening, The Browning of Australia, Kangaroo Press, 1994

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Author: M. H. Monroe
Email:  admin@austhrutime.com
Last updated 30/06/2013

 

Arid Zone Ecosystems
Aquatic Food Webs in Turbid Arid-Zone Rivers
Claypans
Biological Duricrust
Chenopod Shrublands
Cooper Creek Floodplain
Mound Springs
Mulga Woodland
Salinas
Saltbush
Spinifex Grasslands
  
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