Northern New Guinea montane rain forests information
Ecoregion in New Guinea
Northern New Guinea montane rain forests
Cyclops Mountains, near Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia
Ecoregion territory (in purple)
Ecology
Realm
Australasian realm
Biome
tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Borders
Northern New Guinea lowland rain and freshwater swamp forests
Geography
Area
23,171 km2 (8,946 sq mi)
Countries
Indonesia
Papua New Guinea
Provinces
Papua (Indonesia)
East Sepik
Madang,
Sandaun (Papua New Guinea)
Coordinates
2°30′S138°18′E / 2.5°S 138.3°E / -2.5; 138.3
Conservation
Conservation status
Critical/endangered
Protected
3,374 km² (15%)[1]
The Northern New Guinea montane rain forests is a tropical moist forest ecoregion in northern New Guinea. The ecoregion covers several separate mountain ranges lying north of New Guinea's Central Range and south of the Pacific Ocean.
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^Eric Dinerstein, David Olson, et al. (2017). An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 6, June 2017, Pages 534–545; Supplemental material 2 table S1b. [1]
^"Map of Ecoregions 2017". Resolve. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
^"Northern New Guinea montane rain forests". Digital Observatory for Protected Areas. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
^"Northern New Guinea montane rain forests". The Encyclopedia of Earth. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
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