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	New Caledonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		New Caledonia is located around 21°30′ S 165°30′ E in the southwest Pacific Ocean, approximately 1,200 km east of Australia and 1,500 km northwest of New Zealand.
		New Caledonia lies astride the Tropic of Capricorn, between 19° and 23° south latitude.
		The New Caledonia Barrier Reef, which surrounds the Grande Terre and the Île des Pins, is the second-largest coral reef in the world after Australia's Great Barrier Reef, reaching a length of 1500 km.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Caledonia (2907 words)

	New Caledonia rain forests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		New Caledonia lies astride the Tropic of Capricorn, between 19º and 23º south latitude, 1,200 km east of Australia and 1,500 km northeast of New Zealand.
		New Caledonia is an ancient fragment of Gondwana, the southern supercontinent.
		The predominant flora of New Caledonia rain forests is derived from the Antarctic flora of ancient southern Gondwana.
	new-caledonia-rain-forests.ask.dyndns.dk (538 words)

	Papua New Guinea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Independent State of Papua New Guinea (informally, Papua New Guinea or PNG) is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands.
		Papua New Guinea is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state.
		New Guinea is part of the humid tropics, and many Indomalayan rainforest plants spread across the narrow straits from Asia, mixing together with the old Australian and Antarctic floras.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Papua_New_Guinea (2141 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- New Caledonia rain forests (AA0113) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Animals tend to grow large here: New Caledonia is home to the world’s largest gecko (Rhacodactylus leachianus), the world’s largest arboreal pigeon (the New Caledonia imperial-pigeon), and the world’s largest skink (the giant skink, which has not been seen since the 1870s and may be extinct).
		An ancient family of birds is represented by the kagu, the national bird of New Caledonia.
		Rain forest once covered 70 percent of the land area of New Caledonia.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa0113.html (459 words)

	Papua New Guinea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Papua New Guinea is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea (the other half is the Papua province of Indonesia).
		Papua New Guinea is a member of the Commonwealth and Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state.
		Papua New Guinea is mostly mountainous (highest peak: 4509 m) and covered with rain forest; there are small plains along the coast.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/p/pa/papua_new_guinea.html (1004 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- New Caledonia rain forests (AA0113)
		The lowland tropical rain forests are of a mixed-species composition, with the prevalent gymnosperms being Agathis lanceolata, A. ovata, Araucaria columnaris, A. bernieri, Dacrydium araucarioides, Dacrycarpus vieillardii, and Falcatifolium taxoides.
		New Caledonia has a remarkable diversity of gymnosperms (primitive nonflowering plants that include conifers), with forty-four species (forty-three of which are endemic) out of fifteen genera (at least three of which are endemic) (Keast 1996; Morat 1993).
		New Caledonia is a prosperous territory of France, and this prosperity affects the future of its biodiversity.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa0113_full.html (1864 words)

	New Caledonia rain forests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The New Caledonia rain forests are a terrestrial ecoregion, located in New Caledonia in the South Pacific.
		Like the Australian rainforests and the temperate forests of New Zealand, conifers of the southern hemisphere families Araucariaceae and Podocarpaceae are mixed with angiosperm trees, including the southern hemisphere genus Nothofagus and trees and shrubs of families Myrtaceae and Proteaceae.
		The Montane rain forests are also mixed-species, predominantly the conifers Araucaria, Agathis, Podocarpus, Dacrydium, Libocedrus, and Acmopyle, and the angiosperms Metrosideros, Weinmannia, Quintinia, and Nothofagus.
	new-caledonia-rain-forests.area51.ipupdater.com (559 words)

	Biodiversity Hotspots - New Caledonia - Human Impacts
		New Caledonia has the largest known deposits of nickel in the world.
		Today, of the 5,050 km² of relatively pristine habitat left in New Caledonia, 4,000 km² are rain forests and 1,000 km² are low- to mid-altitude maquis.
		A recent study suggests that New Caledonia's sclerophyll forest is the most threatened tropical dry forest in the world.
	www.conservation.org /xp/Hotspots/new_caledonia/impacts.xml (628 words)

	NEW CALEDONIA FACTS AND DATA SALES FORCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		New Caledonia is located around in the southwest Pacific_Ocean, approximately 1,200 km east of Australia and 1,500 km northwest of New_Zealand.
		New Caledonia is made up of a main island, the Grande Terre, and several smaller islands, the Belep archipelago to the north of the Grande Terre, the Loyalty_Islands to the east of the Grande Terre, the Ãle_des_Pins to the south of the Grande Terre, and the Chesterfield_Islands and Bellona_Reefs further to the west.
		New Caledonia's freshwater ecology also evolved in long isolation, and the New_Caledonia_rivers_and_streams are home to many endemic species.
	www.steelonemarketing.com /New_Caledonia (2650 words)

	MBG: DIVERSITY, ENDEMISM, AND EXTINCTION IN THE FLORA AND VEGETATION OF NEW CALEDONIA
		MBG: DIVERSITY, ENDEMISM, AND EXTINCTION IN THE FLORA AND VEGETATION OF NEW CALEDONIA
		DIVERSITY, ENDEMISM, AND EXTINCTION IN THE FLORA AND VEGETATION OF NEW CALEDONIA
		New Caledonia separated from Australia about 65 MYBP and reached its present position around 50 MYBP; during the Paleocene and middle Eocene peridotites covered the island resulting in ultrabasic substrates that still occupy about a third of the surface.
	www.mobot.org /MOBOT/research/newcaledonia (396 words)

	New_Caledonia
		New Caledonia is located in the southwest Pacific Ocean approximately 1,200 km east of Australia and 1,500 km northeast of New Zealand.
		The New Caledonia Barrier Reef, which surrounds the Grande Terre and the Ile des Pins, is the second-largest coral reef in the world after Australia's Great Barrier Reef, reaching a length of 1500 km.
		Since 1986 New Caledonia is on a United Nations list of non-self-governing territories, a list that also includes such places as the American Samoa, the British Falkland Islands, or the New Zealand territory of Tokelau, but which noticeably does not include places like Tibet or Irian Jaya.
	www.apawn.com /search.php?title=New_Caledonia (2060 words)

	Tropical And Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests are common in several terrestrial ecozones, including parts of the Afrotropic (equatorial Africa), Indomalaya (parts of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia), the Neotropic (northern South America and Central America), Australasia (eastern Indonesia, New Guinea, and northern Australia), and Oceania (the tropical islands of the Pacific Ocean).
		New Britain-New Ireland lowland rain forests (Papua New Guinea)
		New Britain-New Ireland montane rain forests (Papua New Guinea)
	www.aplaceinthesun.com /encyclopedia/Tropical_and_subtropical_moist_broadleaf_forests (990 words)

	Biodiversity Hotspots - New Caledonia - Overview
		Nickel mining, forest destruction and invasive species threaten fauna like the kagu, an Endangered bird with a distinctive crest that is the only surviving member of its family.
		New Caledonia is one of the smallest hotspots in the world (the size of New Jersey).
		Evergreen rain forests, which once covered about 70 percent of the area, are now confined to a few scattered pockets in the central mountains.
	www.biodiversityhotspots.org /xp/Hotspots/new_caledonia (417 words)

	CPD: South America, Site SA45, Temperate Rain Forest, Chile
		Conditions for rain forest in southern South America are provided by the Andean Cordillera intercepting strong westerly winds along the Pacific coast during winter and summer months and the cool northward-flowing oceanic Humboldt Current maintaining humid and foggy conditions in coastal locations.
		The cool-temperate rain forest is most appropriately considered a mosaic of floristic types responding locally to key environmental gradients and soil conditions, reflected in gradual shifts in dominance and species richness.
		Forests were destroyed as the land was cleared for settlements and agriculture, and trees were cut for construction materials and fuelwood.
	www.nmnh.si.edu /botany/projects/cpd/sa/sa45.htm (4307 words)

	Crisis in the Rain Forest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On the order of 200 billion tons of carbon is bound up in the plants of the rain forest, carbon that might otherwise be in the form of carbon dioxide and contribute to the greenhouse effect.
		Beyond a threshold level of thinning—about 30% removal of the canopy—rain forest ceases to be rain forest.
		Rain forests and their inhabitants are a resource the Western world has barely begun to understand.
	www.motherearthnews.com /library/1987_July_August/Crisis_in_the_Rain_Forest (2636 words)

	birding facts Birding Resources by the Fat Birder
		Birds of the Solomons, Vanuatu and New Caledonia.
		The Southern Province of New Caledonia (Province Sud de Nouvelle-Calédonie) occupies the southern half of the main island of Grande Terre.
		New Caledonia is one of the world`s smallest hotspots, yet it is very diverse and, like the other members of the ancient super-continent Gonwanaland, Madagascar and New Zealand, supports high levels of endemism...
	www.fatbirder.net /links_geo/australasia/new_caledonia.html (1205 words)

	Welcome to Forest and Bird
		Beech forest is widespread in cooler parts of NZ, but is noticeably absent from Mt Taranaki, Stewart Island and what is known as the "West Coast beech gap" between the Paringa and Taramakau rivers.
		Today the cold-adapted beech forests reach their greatest extent in New Zealand and Patagonian South America, with sizeable forests in Tasmania, and smaller ones in New Guinea, New Caledonia, and southeast Australia.
		The ancient forests were then dominated by podocarps, such as the ancestors of kahikatea, rimu and miro in New Zealand, along with ancestral kauri and araucaria, such as the monkey puzzle trees in Chile.
	www.forestandbird.org.nz /publications/magazine/1998/november/gondwana.asp (1772 words)

	New Caledonian Rail
		:...___ New Caledonian Lorikeet ___ (extinct?) ___ New Caledonian Myezomela ___ New Caledonian Owlet-Nighjar ___ (extinct?), ___ New Caledonian Rail (extinct?) ___...
		Biodiversity Hotspots - New Caledonia: Indeed, it is feared that the New Caledonian lorikeet, the New Caledonian rail, and the New Caledonian owlet-nightjar may already be extinct.
		Terrestrial Ecoregions -- New Caledonia rain forests (AA0113): Sadly, the kagu is among the ecoregionâs endangered species -- which also include the New Caledonian rail (listed as critical) and five other bird species on...
	www.specieslist.com /endangered/common_name/N/New_Caledonian_Rail.shtml (819 words)

	Solomon Islands rain forests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Solomon Islands rain forests are a terrestrial ecoregion which includes most of the Solomon Islands (except the Santa Cruz Islands) and the islands of Bougainville and Buka, which are part of Papua New Guinea.
		The Santa Cruz Islands, which lie to the west of the Solomons, are part of the Vanuatu rain forests ecoregion, together with the neighboring archipelago of Vanuatu.
		The Solomon Islands rain forests are a Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests ecoregion, also known as a tropical rainforest.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Solomon-Islands-rain-forests.htm (188 words)

	Vanuatu rain forests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Vanuatu rain forests are a terrestrial ecoregion that includes the islands of Vanuatu, as well as the Santa Cruz Islands group of the neighboring Solomon Islands.
		It is part of the Australasia ecozone, which includes neighboring New Caledonia and the Solomon Islands, as well as Australia, New Guinea, and New Zealand.
		The Vanuatu rain forests are a Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests ecoregion, also known as a tropical rainforest.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/V/Vanuatu-rain-forests.htm (150 words)

	Saving the Rain Forests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		and elsewhere, about the worldwide destruction of tropical rain forests, the resulting loss of half the species on earth, and the devastating impact deforestation is likely to have on the climate and ecology of the entire planet.
		Share your knowledge of the importance of tropical forests with others: Schedule programs, workshops and meetings on forest conservation at your school, club, church, library, office, aquarium or zoo.
		Forester Peter Hazlewood is Assistant Director of the Tropical Forests Project of the WRI, a policy research center.
	www.motherearthnews.com /library/1988_January_February/Saving_the_Rain_Forests (789 words)

	New Zealand map and information page
		Recently in the news as the film site for the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the stunning islands of New Zealand were originally settled by the wandering Polynesian Maori.
		News of these beautiful and fertile islands began to spread across the globe.
		In this rugged home of fjords, glaciers, rain forests, geysers, unspoiled beaches and more, it's obvious why tourism is the largest growth industry.
	www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/oceania/nz.htm (428 words)

	Encyclopedia: Endemic (ecology)
		An ecoregion is a relatively large area of land or water that contains a geographically distinct assemblage of natural communities.
		The Madagascar lowland forests are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion, found on the eastern coast of the island of Madagascar.
		One of the worlds biological treasures, the Hawaiian Tropical Moist Forests ecoregion is home to a high diversity of endemic species.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Endemic-%28ecology%29 (754 words)

	Systematics of Agathis
		This is being steadily assembled from bits and pieces produced during the course of my doctoral study of the genus at the University of Oxford, supervised by Stephen Harris in Oxford and by Aljos Farjon at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
		The genus is distributed from Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia, through New Guinea, Queensland and the eastern Solomons, to Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji and New Zealand.
		I’ve made hundreds of collections of DNA samples, and dozens of new herbarium collections for Oxford, Nouméa and Kew, in the course of two months of fieldwork in New Caledonia earlier this year.
	www.agathis.info (530 words)

	Endemic %28ecology%29 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		New Zealand endemic bird, the Kakapo or owl parrot.
		Facts about the habitat, nesting, and feeding of this bird which is endemic to New Zealand.
		Endemic to Southwestern Costa Rica where it occurs on somewhat acidic soils in the understory of cloud forests from 1,000 to 1,300 meters.
	www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Endemic_%28ecology%29 (914 words)

	Endemic (ecology) - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sierra Madre de Oaxaca and Sierra Madre del Sur pine-oak forests (Mexico, Guatemala)
		Trees of the Carolinian Forest: A Guide to Species, Their Ecology and Uses
		Only in Arkansas: A Study of the Endemic Plants and Animals of the State
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /endemic_(ecology).htm (343 words)

	Endemic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sierra Madre de Oaxaca and Sierra del Sur pine-oak forests (Mexico Guatemala)
		The Political Economy of Hunger: Endemic Hunger (W I D E R Studies in Development Economics)
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	www.freeglossary.com /Endemic (341 words)

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