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	Wallacea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wallacea is a biogeographical designation for a group of Indonesian islands separated by deep water from the Asian and Australian continental shelves.
		The islands of Wallacea lie between Sundaland (the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, and Bali) to the west, and Near Oceania including Australia and New Guinea to the south and east.
		Wallacea includes the islands of Nusa Tenggara, which include Lombok, Komodo, Flores, and Sumba; Timor; Sulawesi; the islands of North Maluku, including Halmahera; and most of the province of Maluku, excluding the Aru Islands, which lie on the Australian continental shelf.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wallacea (750 words)

	Biodiversity Hotspots - Wallacea - Unique and Threated Biodiversity
		Wallacea has very high numbers of species found nowhere else in the world, in part because it is tropical and made up of many islands and in part because of its complex geological history.
		Most of the invertebrate fauna of Wallacea remains poorly known, except for the enormous bird-wing butterflies, which are members of the swallowtail butterfly family.
		The rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus weberi) is a subspecies endemic to Flores island in the Wallacea Hotspot.
	www.biodiversityscience.org /xp/Hotspots/wallacea/biodiversity.xml (1097 words)

	Biodiversity Hotspots - Wallacea - Overview
		The Wallacea hotspot encompasses the central islands of Indonesia east of Java, Bali, and Borneo, and west of the province of New Guinea, and the whole of Timor Leste.
		Wallacea is divided from Sundaland, the other hotspot found in Indonesia, by Wallace's Line, which separates the Indo-Malayan and Australasian biogeographic realms.
		The magnificent Sulawesi red-knobbed hornbill (Aceros cassidix) is endemic to Sulawesi island in the Wallacea Hotspot.
	www.biodiversityhotspots.org /xp/Hotspots/wallacea (355 words)

	Auk, The: A Guide to the Birds of Wallacea: Sulawesi, The Moluccas and Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia
		The composition and distribution of the avifauna of Wallacea reflect the important contribution of a dispersal legacy in addition to vicariance; Wallacea is also rife with endemism at the generic and species (249 species) levels.
		Wallacea is a myriad of about 13,500 islands stretching more than 5,000 km, located between the subcontinent of India and adjacent parts of Asia to the east (Borneo to the Philippines) and the Australia/New Guinea region to the west.
		Part of the interesting biogeographic and systematic composition of Wallacea owes itself to vicariance as related to the complex and progressive breakup and migrations of parts of Laurasia and Gondwanaland, with remnants of both land masses represented in Wallacea.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3793/is_199807/ai_n8798565 (1399 words)

	Wallacea: Overview
		The Wallacea region is located almost entirely within the borders of Indonesia and includes the large island of Sulawesi, the Moluccas (Spice islands), Banda islands and the Lesser Sundas.
		The Wallacea hotspot is separated from the adjacent Sundaland hotspot to the west by Wallace's line, which runs between Borneo and Sulawesi to the north and Bali and Lombok to the south.
		Wallacea is a transition zone between Asian and Australasian regions, containing flora and fauna from both of these areas.
	www.freewebs.com /wallacea/wallacea.htm (467 words)

	wallacea text
		Defined by the famed Wallace Line to the west and the Weber/Lydekker Line1 to the east, Wallacea covers the region east of Bali and west of New Guinea,including the island groups of Sulawesi, Lesser Sundas, and Maluku.
		Biologically, Wallacea is a hotspot of biodiversity where species from Asia and Australia mingle.
		As a bioregion, Wallacea is far better known for the high distinctiveness of its fauna.
	www.aideasttimor.org /wallacea_text.html (789 words)

	REVIEWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The composition and distribution of the avifauna of Wallacea reflect the important contribu- tion of a dispersal legacy in addition to vicariance; Wallacea is also rife with endemism at the generic and species (249 species) levels.
		Wallacea is a myriad of about 13,500 islands stretching more than 5,000 km, located between the subcontinent of India and adjacent parts of Asia to the east (Borneo to the Philippines) and the Austra- lia/New Guinea region to the west.
		Wallacea compris- es three major constellations of islands, called sub- regions; Sulawesi (the former Celebes) and its satel- lite islands, including the Sula Islands; the Moluccas group; and the Lesser Sunda Islands.
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Auk/v115n03/p0806-p0820.html (21481 words)

	Wallacea - a transition zone from Asia to Australia, specially rich in marine life (Zubi)
		Nusa Tenggara belongs to Wallacea and is the Indonesian name for the over 500 islands east of Bali, running from Lombok in the west to Timor in the east.
		The islands of Sulawesi, Mollucas, Bali and Nusa Tenggara are ideally positioned in the Indonesian Throughflow (Arus Lintas Indonesia), a massive flow of water that passes from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean and deposits planktonic larvae in the waters of Wallacea.
		The major threats to this hotspot are pollution from land-based sources, sediment pollution from logging and mining, intensive destructive fishing (dynamite fishing) and live reef fish trade (for the aquarium trade and for restaurants in South East Asia).
	www.starfish.ch /dive/Wallacea.html (1676 words)

	Disappearing paradise
		Wallacea, a group of islands to the east of Bali, is named after the explorer naturalist Alfred Russell Wallace who first discovered the unique range of plants, insects and birds during his visits to Indonesia in the 1850s.
		Operation Wallacea, based on Sulawesi, the largest island in the group, relies almost entirely on international aid to help investigate the best ways in which to preserve its environment.
		Despite the uniqueness of Wallacea's fauna, much of the island group is yet to be systematically surveyed.
	www.hero.ac.uk /sites/hero/uk/studying/archives/2002/disappearing_paradise1519.cfm (607 words)

	Research Opportunities in Sulawesi, Indonesia
		Operation Wallacea (www.opwall.com) is an organisation which for the last 6 years has been running research projects with academics (mainly from the UK to date) on different aspects of the flora and fauna of the rainforests and reefs of SE Sulawesi as well as community development projects.
		These projects are funded from the payments made by student volunteers who join the programme, either to gain short periods of experience on a range of forest and reef research projects, or who specialise in one aspect of the programme and complete an individual research project for their final year Honours thesis.
		Those projects selected for the programme are funded by Operation Wallacea and the researcher has all their field costs funded (food, accommodation, transport around the sites, use of equipment, visa costs etc) in exchange for designing the project in such a way that students can actively participate in the research.
	www.uoguelph.ca /zoology/rush/students/employment25_05_01.html (546 words)

	Threats to Biodiversity
		The primary threat to biodiversity in Wallacea is habitat loss.
		Forests have also been cleared to make way for agriculture and for human settlements to support the growing human populations; the population growth rate in Wallacea is around 2% per year, compared to the world average of just over 1% per year.
		Wallacea is composed of thousands of islands, which are vulnerable to species extinctions, especially if habitat loss continues.
	www.freewebs.com /wallacea/threats.htm (741 words)

	The Orcadian Features - Wallacea study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		She was given the opportunity to go with Operation Wallacea to Indonesia to gain research towards her honours thesis, by studying native monkeys in their natural habitat.
		Even just playing with the children in the village and talking to the families you get to know what their life is like and how different it is from that to which we are used.
		With organisations such as Operation Wallacea, the few rainforests that we have left can be conserved, meaning that local communities can continue to survive as they have the local resources to do so.
	www.orcadian.co.uk /features/articles/wallacea.htm (975 words)

	Nottingham University - Operation Wallacea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Arriving midday on the 4th, we were met by representatives from the conservation organisation “Operation Wallacea” and attended a briefing on the work achieved so far, and the projects to be accomplished in the month that lay ahead.
		The descriptions that follow, detail just some of the work that was undertaken by our Nottingham Wallacea volunteers during their time with Operation Wallacea, work which taught us irreplaceable skills and helped contribute to one of the world’s most promising, grassroots conservation projects.
		This was a study which worked alongside the population density study, but instead of looking at how the presence of villages effected the monkeys, we looked at how the monkeys effected the villagers and their everyday lives.
	vsb.nott.ac.uk /wallacea (4599 words)

	Wallacea and More Lines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Modern scientists use Wallace's Line to define the western limit of Wallacea, a biogeographic zone with significant species endemism that combines flora and fauna from both Australia and Asia (Moss and Wilson 1998).
		Corresponding to the edge of the Sahul Continental shelf, it marks the boundary between Australia and the transitional zoogeographic zone of Wallacea (van den Bergh et al.
		Finally, Weber's Line, which was originally based on the distribution of freshwater fish, was redefined as the line of faunal balance between Australia and Asia.
	kjett.bol.ucla.edu /wallace5.htm (464 words)

	The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Wallacea region is named after British scientist and explorer Alfred Russel Wallacea who explored and studied the characteristics of flora and fauna on the islands of Sulawesi, Southeast Nusa and Maluku about 150 years ago.
		The Wallacea lies on the boundary of the Indo-Malayan and Australasian biogeographical zones, which means that the region has species representative of those two zones, as well as its own unique biodiversity.
		The Wallacea region, with its unique characteristics is home to 10,000 plant's species, 201 species of mammals, 697 species of birds, 188 reptile species, and 56 species of amphibians, as well as over 450 types of coral and 3,000 fish species.
	www.thejakartapost.com /yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20040524.C03 (502 words)

	marine environment - footprint in the sand
		However, as the numbers of visitors to the area increase both Operation Wallacea and local organisations are concerned about the impact this may have on local reefs or through the increased fishing effort by locals.
		After negotiations with the Sampelan Kapela Desa (literally Head Man) it was agreed that Operation Wallacea would be responsible for the maintenance of the Rompong and would pay some of the local fishers to service it.
		Operation Wallacea will continue to assist communities, Government agencies and other organisations in order that the Wakatobi Marine National Park succeeds in its aims and prospers with national as well as international pride.
	e-nekton.com /archive/edition7/environment3.html (2324 words)

	birding facts Birding Resources by the Fat Birder
		Wallacea is a transitional zone between the Oriental and Australasian faunal realms.
		Indeed, Wallacea forms the hart of the transition zone between the Oriental and Australo-Papuan biological forms, and going from one island to the other the visitor can almost feel speciation at work...
		Operation Wallacea is a series of scientific wildlife survey and conservation expeditions to a remote corner of the island of Sulawesi.
	www.fatbirder.com /links_geo/asia/indonesia_sulawesi.html (1089 words)

	Inside Indonesia 54 - Operation Wallacea
		Operation Wallacea is a three-year pilot project designed to test the principle of using paying volunteer naturalists to conduct rapid ecological assessments in areas of high conservation value in the Wallacea region of eastern Indonesia.
		It is under joint Indonesian sponsorship of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), the Wallacea Development Institute (WDI) and the Directorate General of Forestry and Conservation (PHPA).
		Operations Wallacea's first survey period between June 1995 and January 1996 resulted in about 214 man-weeks of volunteer help.
	www.serve.com /inside/edit54/mark.htm (899 words)

	Wakatobi Dive Resort - Coral Reef Research
		Extensive recent research (1995-97 over 800 man-weeks of survey conducted in the course of Operation Wallacea alone) has shown that the large reefs of Tukang Besi harbor an exceptionally high bio-diversity.
		Although only a small number of divers and researchers have had the opportunity to dive in Wakatobi so far, the area is now probably one of the best researched tropical reef areas of substantial size in the world.
		The author of this message is NOT related with Operation Wallacea and the authors' views may not reflect the views of the research team in certain aspects.
	www.wakatobi.com /research.html (651 words)

	SET'99
		Sulawesi is a large island in the Wallacea region of Indonesia.
		Operation Wallacea is a not for profit project which promotes conservation by bringing volunteers of all ages and nationalities to help biologists who are mapping remote areas of rainforest and coral reef.
		The Wallacea islands have been separated from the Asian continents by deep ocean trenches for so long that almost all of the plants and animals found there occur nowhere else on Earth.
	homepage.eircom.net /~happyboots/set99 (705 words)

	durham21 \| news \| Summer Lovvin` (Happy At Last)
		Operation Wallacea is a scientific expedition to a remote island archipelago called Sulawesi in central Indonesia.
		This sudden difference turned out to be due to differences in evolution of pioneer animals that arrived from the Asian mainland during ice ages when the sea levels were lower, which ultimately led to the maintenance of distinction of the Wallacea region animals.
		As a result of these spectacular geographical and geological circumstances, there are over 100 bird species on Wallacea found no-where else in the world, and on Sulawesi, 90% of the mammals are unique to the island.
	www.durham21.co.uk /archive/archive.asp?ID=783 (1239 words)

	SOC news - item
		Operation Wallacea is a series of biological and social science expedition projects designed to underpin the achievement of specific wildlife conservation aims.
		The expeditions have been running for the last 7 years in a remote corner of the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia.
		Emmy spent one month with Operation Wallacea, Indonesia in May and June 2002, invited for her underwater photographic expertise.
	www.soc.soton.ac.uk /PR/NEWS/content/191202_walacea.htm (218 words)

	Wallacea - TheBestLinks.com - Australia, Asia, Alfred Russel Wallace, Bali, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Wallacea - TheBestLinks.com - Australia, Asia, Alfred Russel Wallace, Bali,...
		Wallacea, Australia, Asia, Alfred Russel Wallace, Bali, Borneo, Banda Islands...
		The islands of Wallacea lie between Sundaland (the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, and Bali) to the west, and Australia and New Guinea to the south and east.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Wallacea.html (590 words)

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