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Northern New Guinea montane rain forests: Indonesia: Australasian: Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests: Northern New Guinea montane rain forests: Papua New Guinea: Australasian: Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests: Queensland tropical rain forests: Australia: Australasian: Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf ...
The Queensland tropical rain forests ecoregion (WWF ID: AA0117) covers a portion of the coast of Queensland in northeastern Australia and belongs to the Australasian realm. The forest contains the world's best living record of the major stages in the evolutionary history of the world's land plants, including most of the world's relict species ...
At around 1200 square kilometres the Wet Tropics Rainforest is a part of Australia's largest contiguous area of rainforest. Contains 30% of frog , marsupial and reptile species in Australia, and 65% of Australia's bat and butterfly species. 20% of bird species in the country can be found in this area including the threatened cassowary .
Tasmanian temperate rain forests: Tasmanian South East (TSE) Tasmanian temperate forests: Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR) Tasmanian temperate rain forests: Tasmanian West (TWE) Tasmanian temperate rain forests: Victoria Bonaparte (VIB) Kimberley tropical savanna: Victorian Midlands (VIM) Southeast Australia temperate forests: Warren (WAR)
On 9 November 2012, the Australian Government also acknowledged the Indigenous heritage of the area as being nationally significant. The Aboriginal Rainforest People of the Wet Tropics of Queensland have lived continuously in the rainforest environment for at least 5000 years, and this is the only place in Australia where Aboriginal people have permanently inhabited a tropical rainforest ...
Queensland tropical rain forests: Australia: Seram rain forests: Indonesia: Solomon Islands rain forests: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands: Southeastern Papuan rain forests: Papua New Guinea: Southern New Guinea freshwater swamp forests: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea: Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea ...
Montane rain forests are found in cooler-climate mountainous areas. Those with elevations high enough to regularly encounter low-level cloud cover are known as cloud forests. [10] Flooded forests, including freshwater swamp forests and peat swamp forests. [11] Manigua a low, often impenetrable dense forest of tangled tropical shrub and small ...
Queensland tropical rain forests; S. Simpson Desert This page was last edited on 23 November 2020, at 01:55 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...