Flinders Lofty Block

Flinders Lofty Block South Australia
The interim Australian bioregions, with the Flinders Lofty Block in red
Area	66,157.65 km^2 (25,543.6 sq mi)
Localities around Flinders Lofty Block: Gawler Stony Plains Broken Hill Complex Gawler Flinders Lofty Block Murray Darling Depression Eyre Yorke Block Kanmantoo Murray Darling Depression

Flinders Lofty Block is an interim Australian bioregion located in South Australia.[1] It has an area of 6,615,765 hectares (16,347,910 acres),[2] which includes the Mount Lofty Ranges and Flinders Ranges.

Subregions

Flinders Lofty Block consists of six subregions

• Mount Lofty Ranges (FLB01) – 300,580 hectares (742,700 acres)
• Broughton (FLB02) – 1,032,918 hectares (2,552,400 acres)
• Olary Spur (FLB03) – 1,745,479 hectares (4,313,170 acres)
• Southern Flinders (FLB04) – 728,317 hectares (1,799,710 acres)
• Northern Flinders (FLB05) – 1,846,804 hectares (4,563,550 acres)
• Central Flinders (FLB06) – 961,667 hectares (2,376,330 acres)

The Mount Lofty Ranges and Broughton subregions are part of the Mount Lofty woodlands ecoregion.[3] The other subregions are part of the Tirari–Sturt stony desert ecoregion.

References

1. Environment Australia. "Revision of the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) and Development of Version 5.1 – Summary Report" (PDF). Department of the Environment and Water Resources, Australian Government. Retrieved 3 May 2022. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
2. "Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA7) regions and codes". Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Commonwealth of Australia. 2012. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
3. "Mount Lofty woodlands". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund.