Australasian
The Australasian écozone is one of the eight écozone terrestrial S or biogeographic areas.
It includes/understands the share of the Indonesia located at the east of Bali and Borneo, the Timor, the Australia, the New Zealand as well as the major part of the Mélanésie, of which the New Guinea, Vanuatu, the the Solomon Islands and the New Caledonia.
Division with the écozone indomalaise is the “Wallace line”, named since the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace who identified differences between the islands located on a side or other of the line.
From a biological point of view, the Australasian one is a distinct area with a common evolutionary history and a great number of animal species and vegetable single, unquestionable common to all the écozone, the other specific ones to more local zones, but dividing common ancestors.
Ecorégions terrestrial of the Australasian écozone
See too
- Plants with seeds by scientific name
- Plants with spores by scientific name
- Fauna of Australia
- Reserves of the center-Eastern ombrophilous forests of Australia
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