Pacific Subtropical Islands

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The Pacific Subtropical Islands is an interim Australian bioregion which includes Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island. Its IBRA code is PSI. [1] [2] [3]

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Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands constitute the Norfolk Islands, a Level 3 biogeographic unit (aka botanical country) in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. [4]

Subregions

IBRA regions and subregions: IBRA7
IBRA region / subregionIBRA codeArea States Location in Australia
Pacific Subtropical IslandsPSI5,817 hectares (14,370 acres)
Lord Howe Island PSI011,909 hectares (4,720 acres)NSW
Norfolk Island PSI023,908 hectares (9,660 acres)Norfolk Island


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References

  1. ↑ Environment Australia. "Revision of the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) and Development of Version 5.1 - Summary Report". Department of the Environment and Water Resources, Australian Government. Archived from the original on 2006-09-05. Retrieved 2007-01-31.
  2. ↑ IBRA Version 6.1 data
  3. ↑ "Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA7) regions and codes". Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Commonwealth of Australia. 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
  4. ↑ R. K. Brummitt. 2001. World Geographic Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, Edition 2. Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh). http://rs.tdwg.org/wgsrpd/doc/data/

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