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The Cape York Peninsula tropical savanna is a tropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands ecoregion in northern Australia. It occupies the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland , mainland Australia's northernmost point. [ 2 ]
The climate on Cape York Peninsula is tropical savanna in the south, with a heavy monsoon season from November to April, during which time the forest becomes almost uninhabitable, and a dry season from May to October. The temperature is warm to hot, with a cooler climate in higher areas.
Kimberley tropical savanna: Central Ranges (CER) Central Ranges xeric scrub: Channel Country (CHC) Simpson desert: Central Mackay Coast (CMC) Queensland tropical rain forests: Coolgardie (COO) Coolgardie woodlands: Cobar Peneplain (COP) Southeast Australia temperate savanna: Coral Sea (COS) Cape York Peninsula (CYP) Cape York Peninsula tropical ...
The area to the south (like the Cape York Peninsula, part of Queensland) is known as the Gulf Country. The Gulf Country supports the world's largest intact savanna woodlands as well as native grasslands, known as the Carpentaria tropical savanna. The woodlands also extend up the west and east coast of the Gulf.
extent of tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands. Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands is a terrestrial biome defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. [1] The biome is dominated by grass and/or shrubs located in semi-arid to semi-humid climate regions of subtropical and tropical latitudes ...
Each ecoregion is classified into one of 14 major habitat types, or biomes. ... Cape York Peninsula tropical savanna: Australia: Australasian:
The vegetation of the ecoregion includes grasslands, savanna, open woodlands, and small patches of forest. The Gulf Coastal region, which encompasses the coastal plains along the western Gulf of Carpentaria in Northern Territory, is covered mostly in woodlands of Darwin stringybark (Eucalyptus tetrodonta) with an understory of grasses, chiefly curly spinifex (Triodia pungens).
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