Southern New Guinea freshwater swamp forests information
Ecoregion in New Guinea
Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests
Fly River, Papua New Guinea
Ecoregion territory (in purple)
Ecology
Realm
Australasian realm
Biome
tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Borders
List
New Guinea mangroves
Southeastern Papuan rain forests,
Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests
Trans-Fly savanna and grasslands
Vogelkop-Aru lowland rain forests
Geography
Area
99,022 km2 (38,233 sq mi)
Countries
Indonesia
Papua New Guinea
Provinces
Papua
West Papua (Indonesia)
Central
Gulf
Western (Papua New Guinea)
Coordinates
7°00′S141°23′E / 7°S 141.38°E / -7; 141.38
Conservation
Conservation status
Relatively stable/intact
Protected
8,583 km² (9%)[1]
The Southern New Guinea freshwater swamp forests is a tropical moist forest ecoregion in southern New Guinea. The ecoregion includes the extensive swamp forests of southern and western New Guinea.
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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.
^"Southern New Guinea freshwater swamp forests". Digital Observatory for Protected Areas. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
^"Southern New Guinea freshwater swamp forests". The Encyclopedia of Earth. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
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