THE BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE EASTERN GOLDFIELDS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Introduction

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Introduction: The Youanmi-Leonora Study Area (Figure 1) is a rectangle of approximately 13,920 km2 situated between 28° and 29°S and 118°30' and 120°45'E in the northwestern part of the Eastern Goldfields. It comprises the whole of the 1:250,000 geological survey Youammi sheet, SH/50-4 (Stewart et al, 1983) and the western half of the Leonora sheet, SH/51-1 (Thorn and Barnes 1977). It is located in the Austin phytogeographic region in the Eremaean Botanical Province (Beard 1980).