Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests information
Ecoregion in New Guinea
Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests
Lorentz National Park, Papua, Indonesia
Ecoregion territory (in purple)
Ecology
Realm
Australasian realm
Biome
tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Borders
List
Central Range montane rain forests
New Guinea mangroves
Southeastern Papuan rain forests,
Southern New Guinea freshwater swamp forests
Trans-Fly savanna and grasslands
Geography
Area
122,335 km2 (47,234 sq mi)
Countries
Indonesia
Papua New Guinea
Provinces
Papua (Indonesia)
Gulf
Southern Highlands,
Western (Papua New Guinea)
Coordinates
6°06′S140°12′E / 6.1°S 140.2°E / -6.1; 140.2
Conservation
Conservation status
Critical/endangered
Protected
5,841 km2 (5%)[1]
The Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests is a tropical moist forest ecoregion in southeastern New Guinea. The ecoregion covers portions of New Guinea's southern lowlands.[2][3][4]
^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 lowland rain forests". Digital Observatory for Protected Areas. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
^"Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests". The Encyclopedia of Earth. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
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