5-497: South Eastern Queensland is an interim Australian bioregion located in south-eastern Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales . It has an area of 7,804,921 hectares (19,286,380 acres). It is one of the most biodiverse bioregions in Australia. The bioregion is home to eucalypt forests and woodlands, with rainforests on mountain slopes and in stream valleys and wallum heaths near the coast. South Eastern Queensland bioregion
10-612: Is the northernmost part of the Eastern Australian temperate forests ecoregion . South Eastern Queensland bioregion extends along the eastern coast of Australia in south-eastern Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales. It is bounded on the west by the Great Dividing Range , and on the east by the Tasman Sea. It is bounded on the north by the dry coastal region between Gladstone and Rockhampton, where
15-663: The Brigalow Belt savannas extend to the coast. The Brigalow Belt also bounds the bioregion to the west, beyond the Great Dividing Range. The bioregion encompasses South East Queensland , the most densely-populated region in Queensland and home to over 70% of the state's population. South Eastern Queensland consists of 14 subregions: South Eastern Queensland has a humid subtropical climate, with warm rainy summers and mild winters. The bioregion includes
20-537: The Gondwana Rainforests and Fraser Island World Heritage Sites . Other protected areas include: Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia The Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia ( IBRA ) is a biogeographic regionalisation of Australia developed by the Australian government's Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population, and Communities . It
25-597: Was developed for use as a planning tool, for example for the establishment of a national reserve system . The first version of IBRA was developed in 1993–94 and published in 1995. Within the broadest scale, Australia is a major part of the Australasia biogeographic realm, as developed by the World Wide Fund for Nature . Based on this system, the world is also split into 14 terrestrial habitats , of which eight are shared by Australia. The Australian land mass
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