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- ↑ Strategen (Firm); Iluka Resources Limited (2009), Eneabba Mineral Sands future mining proposal : environmental scoping document, Strategen, retrieved 23 October 2016
- ↑ Tsakalos, J.L; Drskova, M.; Hruban, J.; Mucina, L.; Dobrowolski, M. (2014), Floristic patterns and drivers of kwongan vegetation patterns in Eneabba region of the Northern Sandplains, Western Australia, Kwongan Foundation, Perth, retrieved 23 October 2016
- ↑ Macintyre, Paul; Mucina, Laco; Dobrowolski, Mark; Van Niekerk, A; Stephenson, G; Pauw, T (2014), Fine-scale predictive mapping of the kwongan vegetation of the Eneabba sandplains, Western Australia, Kwongan Foundation, Perth, retrieved 23 October 2016
- ↑ Bellairs, Sean Mark; University of Western Australia. Department of Botany (1991), Seed biology, establishment ecology and vegetation development of Northern Sandplain Kwongan vegetation after mineral sand mining near Eneabba, Western Australia , retrieved 23 October 2016
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