Editing Taunton National Park (section)

==Region description==
[[File:IBRA 6.1 Brigalow Belt North.png|thumb|IBRA 6.1 Brigalow Belt North]]
Cracking clay soils and [[brigalow]] vegetation species are dominant in the northern region of the park, while texture-contrast soils in combination with [[Eucalypt]] communities dominate the western region.<ref name=DERM/>  The parks topography is reasonably even, with a gradual slope from the north and western ends of the park towards the eastern and southern margins.<ref name=DERM />  The regions climate is described as subtropical and semi-arid; with a mean annual rainfall of 711&nbsp;mm, half of which is confined to the summer months - December to February.<ref name=Fairywren>{{cite journal|author1=Chan, K. |author2=Augusteyn, J. D. |title=Relationship between bird-unit size and territory quality in three species of fairy-wrens (''Malarus'' spp.) with overlapping territories.|journal=Ecological Research|year=2003|volume=18|issue=1|pages=73–80|doi=10.1046/j.1440-1703.2003.00534.x|s2cid=29680245}}</ref><ref name=VegeStructure>{{cite journal|author=Fisher, D. O. |title=Effects of vegetation structure, food and shelter on the home range and habitat use of an endangered wallaby.|journal=Journal of Applied Ecology|year=2000|volume=37|issue=4|pages=660–671|doi=10.1046/j.1365-2664.2000.00518.x|doi-access=free}}</ref>  
The distribution of rainfall over such a condensed period leaves the area prone to droughts; with a sustained drought event occurring, on average, once a decade.<ref name=VegeStructure /><ref name=Drought>{{cite journal|author=Fisher, D. O. |author2=Blomberg, S. P. |author3=Hoyle, S. D. |title=Mechanisms of drought-induced population decline in an endangered wallaby.|journal=Biological Conservation|year=2001|volume=102|issue=1|pages=107–115|doi=10.1016/S0006-3207(00)00200-7}}</ref>  The most recent drought of significance occurred between 1991 and 1995 with detrimental impacts on the surviving bridled nailtail wallaby population.<ref name=Drought />

As is typical of the tropical savannah in the Northern Brigalow Belt, a combination of open, grassy Eucalypt woodlands, transitional zones and regrowing Acacia shrub-lands and forests comprise Taunton National Parks main vegetation zones.<ref name=wallabydiet1 /><ref name=WWF>{{cite book|last=World Wildlife Fund (Lead Author) & McGinley, M. (EOE Topic Ed.)|title=''Brigalow tropical savanna''|publisher=Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment|location=Washington, D. C.|url=http://www.eoearth.org/article/Brigalow_tropical_savanna#gen0|editor=Encyclopedia of Earth (C. J. Cleveland, Encyclopedia of Earth Ed.)|access-date=11 April 2013|orig-date=7 March 2007|date=1 July 2012}}</ref>  The most common vegetation associations within the park and surrounding areas, tend to be dominated by either brigalow (''[[Acacia harpophylla]]'') or poplar box (''[[Eucalyptus populnea]]'') species, which commonly occur along with other ''Acacia'' and ''Eucalyptus spp''.<ref name=wallabydiet1 /><ref name=Bowerdecs /><ref name=Demography>{{cite journal|author=Pople, A. |author2=Lowry, J. |author3=Lundie-Jenkins, G. |author4=Clancy, T. F. |author5=McCallum, H. I. |author6=Sigg, D. |author7=Hoolihan, D. |author8=Hamilton, S. |title=Demography of bridled nailtail wallabies translocated to the edge of their former range from captive and wild stock|journal=Biological Conservation|year=2001|volume=102|issue=3|pages=285–299|doi=10.1016/S0006-3207(01)00101-X}}</ref>  
Water-bodies present within the park boundaries consist of 15 dams and a small number of creeks.<ref name=Bowerdecs>{{cite journal|last=Madden|first=J. R|title=Bower decorations are good predictors of mating success in the spotted bowerbird|journal=Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology|year=2003|volume=53|issue=5|pages=269–277|doi=10.1007/s00265-003-0583-6|s2cid=11132975}}</ref>
[[File:Brigalow tree.jpg|thumbnail|upright|Brigalow Tree - ''A. harpophylla'']]
[[File:Eucalyptus populnea tree.jpg|thumbnail|Poplar Box - ''Eucalyptus populnea'']]