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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 savanna: Daly Basin (DAB) Kimberley tropical savanna: Darwin Coastal (DAC) Arnhem Land tropical savanna: Dampierland (DAL) Kimberley tropical ...
The Park provides important habitat for numerous species endemic to eastern Australia and south east Queensland, owing its species diversity to varied ecosystem types and ecotones. [3] It represents an important remnant of coastal heathland once common in the region and a refuge for the associated flora and fauna.
Wallum, or Wallum country, is an Australian ecosystem of coastal south-east Queensland, extending into north-eastern New South Wales. It is characterised by flora-rich shrubland and heathland on deep, nutrient-poor, acidic, sandy soils, and regular wildfire. Seasonal changes in the water table due to rainfall may create swamps.
Noosa Biosphere Reserve is an internationally protected area covering the region of Noosa in Queensland, Australia.Also known as the Noosa Everglades, one of only two Everglades systems in the world [2] It is formally recognised as a Biosphere Reserve by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and Man and the Biosphere (MAB) program for its highly diverse ...
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 ...
Four regional ecosystems listed as of concern are easily encountered by visitors to Carnarvon Gorge: Queensland blue gum woodland on alluvial plains; silver-leaved ironbark woodland on alluvial plains; Queensland blue gum, river she-oak fringing woodland on alluvial plains; and tall open forest in sheltered gorges and moist habitats.
Brown Lake (Bummeria) is a perched lake on North Stradbroke Island, in South-East Queensland, Australia. [4] The ecosystem is an example of a coastal non-floodplain sand lake [5] and is characterised by acidic water, nutrient-poor and sandy soil, shrub-like vegetation and wet heathland.
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 ...