The Pacific Subtropical Islands is an interim Australian bioregion which includes Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island (both part of New South Wales). Its IBRA code is PSI.[1][2][3]

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 / subregion IBRA code Area States Location in Australia
Pacific Subtropical Islands PSI 5,817 hectares (14,370 acres) NSW
Lord Howe Island PSI01 1,909 hectares (4,720 acres)
Norfolk Island PSI02 3,908 hectares (9,660 acres)


See also


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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