Tasmanian temperate forests
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The Tasmanian temperate forests cover the drier eastern portion of the island of Tasmania, Australia, together with islands in Bass Strait including the Furneaux Group and King Island. This is the island's drier side, with average annual rainfall ranging from about 400 to 1,000 mm, in contrast to the wetter rainforests of western Tasmania. Its plant communities are dominated by dry and wet sclerophyll eucalypt forest and Allocasuarina-Callitris woodland, with peppermint eucalypts such as Eucalyptus amygdalina, E. pulchella, and E. viminalis over understories of Acacia, Allocasuarina, and Exocarpos; fire set by Aboriginal Tasmanians shaped these communities for thousands of years. The ecoregion is considered critically endangered, having lost much of its dry sclerophyll vegetation to agriculture and forestry, and it shelters the migratory swift parrot along with endemic birds such as the forty-spotted pardalote and green rosella. For gardeners, several genera native here, including Eucalyptus, Acacia, Allocasuarina, and the native cypress-pine Callitris, are familiar ornamental and landscape plants well suited to drier conditions.
About the temperate broadleaf & mixed forests biome
Four-season forests of deciduous hardwoods — oak, maple, beech — often mixed with conifers, shaped by warm summers and cold winters. Trees leaf out in spring and color in autumn; the generally fertile soils have made these forests heavily settled and farmed.
Collections for this ecoregion
No curated collection's plants all fit this ecoregion's zone range. We surface a collection only when every member would grow here — partial fits get filtered out rather than mislead. As the catalog and the curated set both grow, this section will fill in.