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67:"These sandy soils are largely developed on either side of the Fitzroy River, stretching far away to the Southward, where they form Warburton’s Great Sandy Desert; they are, as a rule, waterless; but, owing to the large rainfall, produce a large quantity of vegetation. On the Ord River there are some small stretches of this country, but never of any great extent."
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leave stretches of bare and blackened soil, studded with dead shrubs. During the short wet season from
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begin to displace the other trees. Canopy height ranges from 3 m to 8 m; the trees are short and deep-rooted, often with the trunks bent or twisted. In his 1926 book “In Savage
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The word “pindan” was first mentioned in print in 1883 by Mr Edward
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and is easy to get lost in. The soils are usually red and sandy with a high clay content, low in nutrients, and susceptible both to drought and to waterlogging when wet.
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Report on the
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to the south-east, exhibiting a mix of monsoonal and arid species. Structurally it is a low and open woodland of scattered trees, dominated by
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described the pindan as a “crippled forest” in response to the apparent uniformity and stunted appearance of the vegetation.
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climate of hot, wet summers and mild, dry winters. The flat, or gently undulating, land lacks prominent
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512:"Information Sheet on Ramsar Wetlands: Roebuck Bay"
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552:"Soils of the Kimberley"
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431:Soils of the Kimberley.
536:Terrestrial Ecoregions
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248:Gyrocarpus americanus
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302:Pavetta kimberleyana
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350:Dahl, Knut (1926).
296:Gardenia pyriformis
266:Ventilago viminalis
236:Grevillea wickhamii
61:Harry Page Woodward
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338:red-winged parrots
314:Dodonaea hispidula
308:Carissa lanceolata
290:Atalaya hemiglauca
218:Corymbia greeniana
125:Great Sandy Desert
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94:Eighty Mile Beach
82:Dampier Peninsula
41:Western Australia
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575:Categories
483:2010-04-14
369:References
169:paperbarks
165:wet season
39:region of
188:A. tumida
174:Knut Dahl
153:wildfires
135:and tall
133:eucalypts
109:landmarks
105:monsoonal
96:. It is
72:Geography
37:Kimberley
581:Habitats
562:13 April
542:13 April
522:13 April
502:13 April
212:A. adoxa
206:A. colei
102:tropical
98:semiarid
457:Sources
161:savanna
141:grasses
131:, with
129:wattles
121:forests
100:with a
47:History
209:, and
137:shrubs
86:Broome
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374:Notes
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