Part of the ongoing Biological Survey of South Australia. To sample the range of vegetation communities and landform types occurring in the region (Outback). The survey conducted in 2008/2009 surveyed the variety of habitats present in the Marqualpie Land System, and the fauna within them.
Marqualpie Land System. Jumbled sand dunes and sand plains. Jumbled dunes, sandplains, channels and swampy flats abutting tableland country on Cordillo Downs and Innamincka Regional Reserve. Red dunes with sandhill wattle, sandhill spider flower and rattlepods over dense spinifex; a variety of flats with lignum, canegrass, Queensland bluebush, neverfail, Mitchell grass and coolibah on the channels and deeper depressions; sandplains with mulga, dead finish and bloodwood over woolybutt, spinifex and annual grasses.
The MARQUALPIE LAND SYSTEM Survey is part of the Biological Survey of South Australia Program which is a series of systematic surveys conducted across the state between 1971 and the present with the broad aim of providing a baseline inventory of South Australia's flora and fauna biodiversity.