Last updated:
20 Dec 2023
Distribution of the species within this region
The Desert Mouse is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the
Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.
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Vegetation formations, classes and types
In this region the Desert Mouse - Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields is known to
be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information
about it.
- Arid shrublands (Acacia sub-formation)
- Gibber Transition Shrublands
- 131 Gidgee of the intermittent watercourses or the arid zone (mainly Channel Country Bioregion and Simpson Strezlecki Dunefields Bioregion)
- 137 Whitewood - Western Rosewood low woodland of the NSW north western plains
- Sand Plain Mulga Shrublands
- 140 Broombush shrubland in dunefields of the arid climate zone
- 124 Sandhill Wattle open shrubland on sand ridges mainly in the arid zone
- 119 Sandplain Mulga tall shrubland - open shrubland of the semi-arid and arid climate zones
- 232 Senna - Mulga - Needlewood open shrubland on loam-clay soils in swales and on the edges of claypans in the arid zone
- 69 White Cypress Pine - Mulga shrubland on plains and sandplains in the arid and semi-arid (hot summer) climate zones.
- Freshwater wetlands
- Inland Floodplain Shrublands
- 375 Budda Pea - Channel Millet ephemeral reedland wetland on floodplains in north-western NSW
- 24 Canegrass swamp tall grassland wetland of drainage depressions, lakes and pans of the inland plains
- 25 Lignum shrubland wetland on floodplains and depressions of the Mulga Lands Bioregion, Channel Country Bioregion in the arid and semi-arid (hot) climate zones
- Inland Floodplain Swamps
- 226 Cyperus - Typha sedgeland wetland of the arid zone climate zone
- Saline wetlands
- Inland Saline lakes
- 149 Neverfail Grass - ephemeral herbaceous grassland forbland of interdune claypans mainly in the arid climate zone
- 62 Samphire saline shrubland/forbland wetland of lake beds and lake margins in the arid and semi-arid (hot) zones
- 162 Sturts Pigface sparse forbland of saline soils of the arid zone
- 263 Submerged flora of saline permanent wetland of the arid zone
- 262 Submerged flora of saline temporary wetland of the arid zone
- Semi-arid woodlands (grassy sub-formation)
- North-west Floodplain Woodlands
- 38 Black Box low woodland wetland lining ephemeral watercourses or fringing lakes and clay pans of semi-arid (hot) and arid zones
- 231 Coolabah open woodland wetland dunefield depressions of the arid zone
- 41 River Red Gum open woodland wetland of intermittent watercourses mainly of the arid climate zone