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Australia, together with New Zealand, New Guinea and neighboring island groups, is part of the Australasian realm. The IBRA bioregions informed the delineation of the WWF ecoregions for Australia, and the WWF ecoregions generally follow the same ecoregion boundaries, while often clustering two or more similar bioregions into a larger ecoregion.
Pages in category "Ecoregions of Australia" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Based on this system, the world is also split into 14 terrestrial habitats, of which eight are shared by Australia. The Australian land mass is divided into 89 bioregions and 419 subregions. Each region is a land area made up of a group of interacting ecosystems that are repeated in similar form across the landscape.
Terrestrial ecoregions of the world. This is a list of terrestrial ecoregions as compiled by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The WWF identifies terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecoregions. The terrestrial scheme divides the Earth's land surface into 8 biogeographic realms, containing 867 smaller ecoregions.
The Eastern Australian temperate forests, or the Eastern Australian temperate and subtropical forests, [2] is a broad ecoregion of open forest on uplands (typically on the Great Dividing Range) starting from the east coast of New South Wales in the South Coast to southern Queensland, Australia.
List of marine ecoregions (WWF), 232 marine ecoregions of the coastal and continental shelf areas. List of freshwater ecoregions (WWF), 426 freshwater ecoregions. Lists of ecoregions by country; Lists of ecoregions by continent. List of ecoregions in Africa; List of ecoregions in Antarctica; List of ecoregions in Australia; List of ecoregions ...
Ecoregions of the Australasian realm — terrestrial ecoregions of Australasia, a southwestern subdivision of the geographic Oceania region. Subcategories This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total.
Many of Australia's ecoregions, and the species within those regions, are threatened by human activities and introduced plant and animal species. The federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 is a legal framework for the protection of threatened species.