ECOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ABYDOS-WOODSTOCK RESERVE, PILBARA REGION, WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Vegetation

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Introduction: The vegetation of the northern Pilbara Region belongs to the Fortescue Botanic District of the Eremaean Botanical Province which covers the whole of arid Australia (Beard 1975, 1980). The predominant vegetation of the two physiographic units are wattle savannas on the Abydos Plain of small trees and scrub with a soft spinifex hummock grass groundlayer, and snappy-gum savanna with two kinds ofspinifex grassland on the fold ranges. Traversing these are the major creek lines carrying dense bands of tall gum and paperbark woodland, and dense wattle scrub along tributaries.