Wikipedia

Jarrah Forest: Difference between revisions

Browse history interactively
← Previous editNext edit →
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
→‎Flora: update links
Line 60:
The Jarrah Forest is unique in that it is dominated by two eucalypt species; jarrah and marri (''[[Corymbia calophylla]]'').<ref name="McCaw et al 2011" /><ref name="Koch and Samsa 2007" /> Marri is a prevalent canopy species and the jarrah forest is commonly called jarrah-marri forest.<ref name = anra/> Other Eucalypts are present but in much less abundance. The Southern Jarrah Forest contains extensive areas of wetland vegetation in the south–east, dominated by paperbarks including the swamp paperbark (''[[Melaleuca rhaphiophylla]]''), and other eucalypts such as the swamp yate (''[[Eucalyptus occidentalis]]'') and the Albany blackbutt (''[[Eucalyptus staeri]]'')<ref name="JF2" /><ref name="McCaw et al 2011" />
 
The eastern forest is largely wandoo woodland, dominated by the canopy species wandoo (''[[Eucalyptus wandoo]]''), and, on breakaways, powderbark (also known as powderbark wandoo) (''[[Eucalyptus accedens]]'').<ref name = anra/><ref name=JF2>{{cite web|last=Hearn |first=Roger |last2=Williams |first2=Kim |last3=Comer |first3=Sarah |author4=Brett Beecham |title=Jarrah Forest 2 (JF2 – Southern Jarrah Forest subregion) |work=A Biodiversity Audit of Western Australia’s 53 Biogeographical Subregions in 2002 |publisher=The Department of Conservation and Land Management |date=January 2002 |url=httphttps://www.decdpaw.wa.gov.au/pdfimages/documents/about/science/bio_auditprojects/waaudit/jarrah_forest02_p382-405.pdf |access-date=8 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080730164544/http://www.dec.wa.gov.au/pdf/science/bio_audit/jarrah_forest02_p382-405.pdf |archive-date=30 July 2008 }}</ref> Other eucalypts in these eastern areas include York gum (''[[Eucalyptus loxophleba]]'').<ref name = anra/> The upland areas are particularly rich in plant life, while the drier inland plateau is less so. The wetter valleys with fertile soils contain flooded gum (''[[Eucalyptus rudis]]''), bullich (''[[Eucalyptus megacarpa]]'') and blackbutt (''[[Eucalyptus patens]]'').<ref name=anra>{{cite web
|title=Biodiversity and Vegetation - Jarrah Forest
|work=Australian Natural Resources Atlas - Natural Resource Topics
Line 79:
|publisher=The Department of Conservation and Land Management
|date=September 2001
|url=httphttps://www.decdpaw.wa.gov.au/pdfimages/documents/about/science/bio_auditprojects/waaudit/jarrah_forest01_p369-381.pdf
|access-date=8 May 2012
|url-status=dead
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110315102034/http://www.dec.wa.gov.au/pdf/science/bio_audit/jarrah_forest01_p369-381.pdf
|archive-date=15 March 2011
}}</ref>
 
The smaller trees commonly found in Jarrah Forest include bull banksia (''[[Banksia grandis]]''), sheoak (''[[Allocasuarina fraseriana]]''), snottygobble (''[[Persoonia longifolia]]'') and woody pear (''[[Xylomelum occidentale]]'').<ref name="Koch 2007">Koch, J. M. (2007). Restoring a jarrah forest understorey vegetation after bauxite mining in Western Australia. Restoration Ecology, 15(s4), S26-S39.</ref> Rare plants within the Jarrah Forest include orchid species ''[[Drakaea confluens]]'' and ''[[Caladenia bryceana]]'', and ''[[Baumea]]'' reed beds are unique to the forest and adjacent areas.<ref name="JF2" />
[[File:Jarrah Forest En.jpeg|thumb|center|700px|The Jarrah Forest ecoregion, with Forest Ecosystem remnant vegetation type.]]
 
== Fauna ==
[[File:Redtailed.black.03.jpg|thumb|[[Red-tailed Black Cockatoo]] browsing for nuts in a Jarrah tree]]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarrah_Forest"