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Rainforests and vine thickets have a present extent of 36,469 km 2, of which 22,694 km 2 is in protected areas. [1] Rainforests and vine thickets are present in 36 of Australia's bioregions. The largest extent of rainforest in Australia is in the Queensland tropical rain forests ecoregion (Wet Tropics bioregion).
Tropical rainforests have been called the "jewels of the Earth" and the "world's largest pharmacy", because over one quarter of natural medicines have been discovered there. [2] Rainforests as well as endemic rainforest species are rapidly disappearing due to deforestation, the resulting habitat loss and pollution of the atmosphere. [3]
The Major Vegetation Subgroups were defined for the purposes of finer scale mapping and regional analyses. Version 6.0 contains 85 subgroups. In version 3.1 (approximately 2007), the Major Vegetation Subgroups were: Cool temperate rainforest; Tropical or sub-tropical rainforest
Rainforests are home to half of all the living animal and plant species on the planet. [7] Two-thirds of all flowering plants can be found in rainforests. [ 5 ] A single hectare of rainforest may contain 42,000 different species of insect, up to 807 trees of 313 species and 1,500 species of higher plants. [ 5 ]
In northern Idaho rainforest patches along the Clearwater River, a mean annual temperature of 5.4°C has been measured. [8] In British Columbian Inland rainforest areas, the mean annual temperature ranges from 2.7 to 4.5°C. In the coldest months, the mean temperature of these region lies between -8 and -9.5°C. [9]
Western Vine Thickets To note, the open eucalypt forest is a broad, crescent-shaped vegetation community that is found from Gladstone, Queensland to as far as Quorn, South Australia in the southwest, which incorporates Southeast Australia temperate forests in southern Victoria and the Mediterranean woodlands in western Victoria and eastern ...
Trinidad and Tobago dry forest on Chacachacare showing the dry-season deciduous nature of the vegetation. Dry forests tend to exist in the drier areas north and south of the tropical rainforest belt, south or north of the subtropical deserts, generally in two bands: one between 10° and 20°N latitude and the other between 10° and 20°S latitude.
Rainforests and vine thickets are of several different types, which vary with climate and soils. Littoral rainforests and coastal vine thickets extend along the east coast southwards of Princess Charlotte Bay , including offshore islands like the Flinders Group .