Nansei Islands subtropical evergreen forests information
Terrestrial Ecoregion of the Ryukyu Islands
Nansei Islands subtropical evergreen forests
Forest on Mount Yae, Okinawa Island
Location of the Nansei (Ryukyu) Islands
Ecology
Realm
Indomalayan
Biome
tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Geography
Area
3,609 km2 (1,393 sq mi)
Country
Japan
prefectures
Kagoshima Prefecture
Okinawa Prefecture
Conservation
Conservation status
Critical/endangered[1]
Protected
813 km2 (23%)[2]
The Nansei Islands subtropical evergreen forests is a terrestrial ecoregion of the Ryukyu Islands, also known as the Nansei Islands, in Japan. The Nansei Islands are an island arc that stretches southwest from Kyushu towards Taiwan. The larger islands are mostly volcanic islands and the smaller ones mostly coral. The largest is Okinawa Island. The highest point is Mount Miyanoura on Yakushima Island at 1,936 metres (6,352 ft).
The ecoregion is the northernmost in the Indomalayan realm, and shares many plants with subtropical and tropical Asia.[1]
of existing NanseiIslandssubtropicalevergreenforests, an endangered habitat ecoregion. The only large animals indigenous to the island are red-bottomed...
and subtropical moist broadleaf forests: NanseiIslandssubtropicalevergreenforests, Ogasawara subtropical moist forests. The most important and threatened...
Japan's Ryukyu Islands. Most of Indomalaya was originally covered by forest, and includes tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, with tropical...
in dense subtropicalforests. It also lives in beaches and islands in the evergreen broadleaf forest. It inhabits dense subtropicalforest and warm temperate...
family Turdidae. It is endemic to the islands of Amami Ōshima and Kakeroma island in the northern NanseiIslands of Japan. This large, heavily patterned...
East Himalaya, Hainan, Japan, Laos, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, where its native habitat is forest and undergrowth along streams, and on...
species of deciduous and evergreen trees, shrubs and climbers in the family Rutaceae that are native to warm temperate and subtropical areas worldwide. It...
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