South East Coastal Plain
South East Coastal Plain Victoria | |||||||||||||||
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![]() The interim Australian bioregions, with the South East Coastal Plain in red | |||||||||||||||
Area | 17,492.37 km2 (6,753.8 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
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The South East Coastal Plain is an interim Australian bioregion located in coastal southern Victoria.[1] It has an area of 1,749,237 hectares (4,322,460 acres).[2] The South East Coastal Plain bioregion is part of the Southeast Australia temperate forests ecoregion and also features the Gippsland Plains Grassy Woodland.
Subregions
[edit]The Southern Plains bioregion consists of three subregions:
- Gippsland Plain (SCP01) – 1,246,995 hectares (3,081,390 acres)
- Otway Plain (SCP02) – 237,799 hectares (587,610 acres)
- Warrnambool Plain (SCP03) – 264,443 hectares (653,450 acres)
References
[edit]- ^ Environment Australia (November 2000). Revision of the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) and Development of Version 5.1 (PDF) (Report). Department of the Environment and Water Resources, Australian Government.
- ^ "Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA7) regions and codes". Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Commonwealth of Australia. 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2022.