Murray-Darling woodlands and mallee

Murray-Darling woodlands and mallee

Murray-Darling woodlands and mallee
The Murray-Darling woodlands and mallee ecoregion stretches across the sedimentary plains of southeastern Australia, spanning parts of New South Wales, South Australia, and Victoria along the basins of the Murray and Darling rivers. Its characteristic vegetation is multi-stemmed eucalypt mallee woodland, with taller stands of black box (Eucalyptus largiflorens) and river red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) lining the river floodplains and terraces. The plains carry a dry Mediterranean climate, with somewhat higher rainfall in the south grading to more arid conditions in the north, and summer fires are common. Recognized as one of the world's rare Mediterranean-climate ecoregions, it shelters a rich bird fauna, with the threatened black-eared miner (Manorina melanotis) serving as its flagship species, though much of the original woodland has been cleared for wheat farming and pasture. Gardeners will recognize several of its native understory genera, including Acacia, Banksia, Grevillea, Hakea, Melaleuca, and the grass-tree Xanthorrhoea.
RESOLVE 203
Australasia
80,221 sq mi
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
Type de paysage
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
Région végétale
Australasia
Empreinte de la région
80,221 sq mi
Pression sur l'habitat
Nature Could Recover (Dinerstein NNH 3)
Prévoyez des étés chauds et secs, des hivers doux et humides, et des plantes conçues pour les variations saisonnières. Ce climat favorise les arbustes adaptés à la sécheresse, les bulbes, les herbes et les plantes de bois clairs ; les conseils sur les espèces indigènes locales comptent car le feu, la perte d'habitat et l'endémisme font partie de l'histoire de la plantation.

Range & origins

Emplacement de Murray-Darling woodlands and mallee sur la carte du monde
Repère placé à l’intérieur du polygone RESOLVE 2017 à 35.0°S, 141.1°E.
La région à travers le temps
Empreinte moderne
RESOLVE 2017 cartographie 80,221 sq mi
Cette limite est une empreinte écologique moderne pour Murray-Darling woodlands and mallee, et non une ligne permanente sur la planète. Elle est utile pour le contexte actuel des plantes et de la faune car elle suit des schémas récurrents de végétation, de climat, de relief et de perturbations.
Pourquoi ici
Conditions de mediterranean forests, woodlands & scrub
La région se situe dans le règne Australasia et est classée comme mediterranean forests, woodlands & scrub. L'altitude, l'humidité, le feu, les sols, les côtes et l'utilisation humaine des terres peuvent tous rendre le paysage réel plus varié qu'une seule couleur de carte ne le laisse penser.
Pression du changement
Nature Could Recover
Plotwright affiche ceci comme l'empreinte RESOLVE actuelle. Au fil des décennies ou des siècles, le réchauffement, les perturbations, les espèces envahissantes, l'utilisation des terres et la restauration peuvent déplacer la bordure vivante d'une région même lorsque la carte de référence reste fixe.

Régions de plantation similaires

Parcourez d'autres régions au rythme similaire d'étés chauds et secs. Leurs listes de plantes peuvent suggérer des espèces et des combinaisons à comparer.
RESOLVE 197 - Australasia
Coolgardie woodlands
The Coolgardie woodlands occupy southern Western Australia, sitting as a broad transition zone between the Mediterranean-climate forests, woodlands and shrublands of Australia's southwest coast and the dry interior, and taking in both the Coolgardie and the coastal Hampton biogeographic regions. The country is dominated by eucalypt woodlands and mallee scrub, with characteristic trees including salmon gum (Eucalyptus salmonophloia), gimlet (E. salubris), York gum (E. loxophleba) and the locally endemic Coolgardie gum (E. torquata), over an understorey of saltbush such as Maireana and Atriplex. The climate is genuinely transitional, drying inland from the comparatively mild, winter-wet Mediterranean southwest toward the arid heart of the continent. This is one of the largest relatively intact temperate woodlands left anywhere on Earth, and its flora is remarkably rich, holding about 30 percent of Australia's eucalypt species and roughly 20 percent of the continent's plants, alongside wildlife such as the ground-nesting malleefowl. For gardeners in warm, dry-summer climates, the salmon gum, gimlet and York gum native here are hardy ornamental eucalypts well suited to low-rainfall plantings.
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
Zones 11a-12b
+2.4°F d’ici 2070
49,891 sq mi
Niveau NNH 2
RESOLVE 198 - Australasia
Esperance mallee
The Esperance mallee stretches along the south coast of Western Australia, aggregating the Esperance Plains and Mallee biogeographic regions. Its defining vegetation is eucalyptus mallee, multi-stemmed eucalypts that resprout from an underground lignotuber after fire, interwoven with myrtle and protea heathlands and Melaleuca shrublands; characteristic species include the sand mallee (Eucalyptus eremophila) and salmon gum (Eucalyptus salmonophloia). The Mediterranean climate brings extended dry summers, and plants here are adapted to poor soils, low rainfall, and regular fire. The region sits within one of the world's great concentrations of endemic plants, yet farming and grazing have cleared or degraded much of it, leaving it conservation-critical; its flagship animal is the red-winged fairywren. For gardeners, the mallee eucalypts and Melaleuca and protea-family shrubs native here are well suited to dry-summer, lean-soil plantings.
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
Zones 11a-12b
+2.0°F d’ici 2070
39,853 sq mi
Niveau NNH 2
RESOLVE 199 - Australasia
Eyre and York mallee
The Eyre and Yorke Mallee ecoregion occupies the Eyre and Yorke peninsulas of coastal South Australia, a disjunct outpost of the Mediterranean-climate woodlands of southern Australia with temperate, wet-winter conditions. Its characteristic native vegetation is low woodland and mallee dominated by dryland tea tree (Melaleuca lanceolata) and mallee box (Eucalyptus porosa), alongside genera such as Callitris, Acacia, and Geijera. Roughly half of the flora is considered of conservation significance, and the Eyre Peninsula alone holds numerous endemic plant species. Much of the original vegetation has been cleared for farmland, leaving scattered remnants conserved within protected areas such as Innes and Coffin Bay national parks. For gardeners in comparable dry-summer climates, the region is the native home of several hardy ornamental and shade trees, including sugar gum (Eucalyptus cladocalyx), river red gum (E. camaldulensis), and the southern native pine (Callitris preissii).
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
Zones 11a-12b
+2.1°F d’ici 2070
23,638 sq mi
Niveau NNH 3
RESOLVE 200 - Australasia
Flinders-Lofty montane woodlands
The Flinders-Lofty montane woodlands cover the north-south ranges and hills of South Australia, including the Flinders and Mount Lofty Ranges, the Fleurieu Peninsula, and Kangaroo Island around the city of Adelaide. The landscape is a mosaic of eucalypt woodlands, acacia forests, Callitris (cypress-pine) forests, mallee shrublands, tussock and hummock grasslands, and chenopod and samphire shrublands, with sugar gum, cypress-pine, black oak, and golden wattle (Acacia pycnantha) among its characteristic plants. Its climate is broadly Mediterranean, with cool wet winters grading into a more summer-rain regime toward the north, and orographic rainfall on the higher peaks. Plant endemism is relatively high, but the region is among Australia's most heavily altered: much of the southern country has been cleared for agriculture and viticulture, over 95 percent has been grazed by livestock, and invasive foxes, rabbits, cats, goats, and donkeys continue to degrade the remaining habitat. The flagship species is the Adelaide pygmy blue-tongued skink, with protected refuges including the Ikara-Flinders Ranges and Mount Remarkable National Parks.
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
Zones 11a-12a
+2.4°F d’ici 2070
25,562 sq mi
Niveau NNH 2
RESOLVE 201 - Australasia
Hampton mallee and woodlands
The Hampton mallee and woodlands stretch along Australia's southern coast, straddling the border of southeastern Western Australia and a smaller portion of South Australia where the Nullarbor Plain meets the Great Australian Bight. The terrain pairs the dune-covered coastal Roe Plains with the limestone Hampton Tableland, a karst escarpment riddled with caves and sinkholes carved from the Eucla Basin. Mallee shrublands and short eucalypt and myall woodlands dominate, with coastal white mallee (Eucalyptus diversifolia) characteristic of the escarpments and dune endemics such as Scaevola crassifolia. The climate is a semi-arid Mediterranean one, with mild to hot summers, cool winters, and modest rainfall that falls mostly in winter. The region shelters the grey currawong and the ground-nesting malleefowl, though feral camels, horses, and rabbits, along with livestock grazing, press on its sensitive dune vegetation. Gardeners may recognize the native desert quandong (Santalum acuminatum), a fruit-bearing species rooted in this country.
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
Zones 11b-12b
+2.6°F d’ici 2070
4,204 sq mi
Niveau NNH 2
RESOLVE 202 - Australasia
Jarrah-Karri forest and shrublands
The Jarrah-Karri Forest and Shrublands occupy the southwestern corner of Western Australia, roughly between Cape Naturaliste and Albany, forming an isolated wet-forest refuge within the country's Mediterranean-climate Southwest. The signature tree is karri (Eucalyptus diversicolor), among the tallest trees in Australia, joined by three tingle species and giving way to jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) and marri on poorer, lower-nutrient soils. The climate is Mediterranean, with hot dry summers and cool wet winters, and this is the wettest zone of the Southwest biodiversity hotspot. It is exceptionally rich and highly endemic, harboring the Albany pitcher plant and endemic frogs such as the orange-bellied, white-bellied, and sunset frogs, while logging, wildfire, feral predators, and Phytophthora dieback remain the main threats. For gardeners, the red-flowering gum (Corymbia ficifolia) is a widely grown ornamental native to this region.
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
Zones 11a-12b
+1.9°F d’ici 2070
3,262 sq mi
Niveau NNH 2

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