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    The Australasian realm is one of eight biogeographic realms that is coincident with, but not (by some definitions) the same as, the geographical region...
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    Sky islands are isolated mountains surrounded by radically different lowland environments. The term originally referred to those found on the Mexican Plateau...
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    The tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forest is a habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature and is located at tropical and subtropical...
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    Coconut (category Australasian realm flora)
    The coconut tree (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the palm tree family (Arecaceae) and the only living species of the genus Cocos. The term "coconut" (or...
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    Wallace Line (category Australasian realm biota)
    Evolutionary biology portal Geography portal Australasian realm – One of the Earth's eight biogeographic realms Ali, Jason R.; Heaney, Lawrence R. (June 2021)...
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    Australasia (redirect from Australasian)
    portal All pages with titles beginning with Australasia Asia-Pacific Australasian realm Australasia at the Olympics Austral-Asia Cup Down Under Sundaland...
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    delineation of the Australasian realm relative to the Antarctic, Oceanic, and Indomalayan realms. In the WWF system, the Australasia realm includes Australia...
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    hummingbirds. Species in the group are distributed in the Indomalayan and Australasian realms. They are named for their large flattened hooked bill and huge frog-like...
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    Melanesia (category Australasian realm)
    Melanesia (UK: /ˌmɛləˈniːziə/, US: /ˌmɛləˈniːʒə/) is a subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It extends from New Guinea in the west to...
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    Eucalyptus (category Australasian realm flora)
    Eucalyptus (/ˌjuːkəˈlɪptəs/) is a genus of more than 700 species of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae. Most species of Eucalyptus are trees, often...
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    subgenera of the genus Varanus. All of its species are found in the Australasian realm, among which are the world's largest lizards. True monitors are characterized...
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    The Australasian wrens are a family, Maluridae, of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. While commonly known as wrens...
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    Ficus microcarpa (category Australasian realm flora)
    Ficus microcarpa, also known as Chinese banyan, Malayan banyan, Indian laurel, curtain fig, or gajumaru (ガジュマル), is a tree in the fig family Moraceae....
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    within the Australasian realm. Conversely, New Guinea, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands and New Zealand are included in the Oceanian realm in the classification...
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    Archaeolemur restoration Pachylemur restoration Extent of the Australasian biogeographical realm Genyornis restoration Diprotodon restoration Southern cassowary...
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    Malesia (category Australasian realm)
    straddling the Equator and the boundaries of the Indomalayan and Australasian realms, and also a phytogeographical floristic region in the Paleotropical...
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    New Caledonia rain forests (category Australasian ecoregions)
    Pacific. It is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion, part of the Australasian realm. The ecoregion covers the windward eastern side of Grand Terre, New...
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    Australian Central Desert province is in the Australasian realm (6), is the 9th biogeographic province in that realm, and its biome falls within "warm deserts...
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  • subtropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregions, arranged by biogeographic realm. Biome Ecoregion Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests Tropical...
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    Wallacea (category Australasian realm)
    the Sulawesi dwarf cuscus, are the westernmost representatives of the Australasian marsupials. The tectonic uplift of Wallacea during the collision between...
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    Ficus benjamina (category Australasian realm flora)
    Ficus benjamina, commonly known as weeping fig, benjamin fig or ficus tree, and often sold in stores as just ficus, is a species of flowering plant in...
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    Australidelphia (category Australasian realm fauna)
    Australidelphia is the superorder that contains roughly three-quarters of all marsupials, including all those native to Australasia and a single species...
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    Artamidae (category Australasian realm fauna)
    Artamidae is a family of passerine birds found in Australia, the Indo-Pacific region, and Southern Asia. It includes 24 extant species in six genera and...
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  • (2017). An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 6, June 2017, Pages 534–545, https://doi.org/10...
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    Grevillea (category Australasian realm flora)
    Grevillea (/ɡrɪˈvɪliə/), commonly known as spider flowers, is a genus of about 360 species of evergreen flowering plants in the family Proteaceae. Plants...
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    Nearctic realm Pinyon–juniper woodland (United States) Palearctic realm Kopet Dag woodlands and forest steppe (Iran, Turkmenistan) Australasian realm Banksia...
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    Tecomanthe (category Australasian realm flora)
    Tecomanthe is a genus of 5 species of tropical or subtropical forest lianes in the family Bignoniaceae. They have attractive trumpet-like flowers and glossy...
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    Avicennia alba (category Australasian realm flora)
    Avicennia alba is a species of tropical mangrove in the family Acanthaceae. It is found growing in coastal and estuarine locations in India, Southeast...
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    Byblis (plant) (category Australasian realm flora)
    Byblis (/ˈbɪblɪs/ BIB-liss) is a small genus of carnivorous plants, sometimes termed the rainbow plants for the attractive appearance of their mucilage-covered...
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    the Australasian realm, but the group originated in the Indomalayan region around 27 million years ago (Mya) and invaded the Australasian realm a number...
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