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	Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and shrub - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and shrub is a temperate biome, characterized by hot-dry summers and mild and rainy winters.
		Vegetation types can range from forests to woodlands, savannas, shrublands, and grasslands; "mosaic" landscapes are common, where differing vegetation types are interleaved with one another in complex patterns created by variations in soils, topography, exposure to wind and sun, and fire history.
		Northern coastal scrub and coastal sage scrub occur along the California coast; strandveld in the Western Cape of South Africa; coastal matorral in the central Chile, and sand-heath and kwongan in Southwest Australia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mediterranean_forests,_woodlands,_and_shrub (827 words)

	Impact of Firewood Collection and Use - Woodland
		Temperate woodlands occur predominantly in regions with a mean annual rainfall of between 250-800mm, forming a transitional zone between the higher rainfall forested margins of the continent and the shrub and grasslands of its arid (Beadle 1981).
		Approximately 85% of box-ironbark woodlands have been cleared since European settlement (Traill 1993), and as these trees are preferred firewood species, it is estimated that 33% of Australia's annual firewood supply is removed from the remaining stands each year (Mussared 1992).
		Woodlands are often accompanied by patches of grasslands, dry sclerophyll forests, heathlands and mallee (Yates and Hobbs 1997).
	www.deh.gov.au /land/pressures/firewood/woodlands.html (775 words)

	NPA Western Woodlands Project opening page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Recent research from throughout the woodlands of Australia has found that woodland birds are rapidly declining in numbers.
		Disturbingly, recent research from throughout the temperate woodlands of Australia has found that dozens of woodland birds are still declining in total numbers and distribution.
		Conserving the woodland birds in the wheat and sheep belts of southern Australia.
	www.npansw.org.au /wwoodlands/woodland_birds.htm (1331 words)

	Australasia ecozone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Australia and New Guinea are distinguished by their large population of Marsupial mammals, including kangaroos, possums, and wombats.
		Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia are all portions of the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana, which started to break into smaller continents in the Cretaceous era, 130-65 million years ago.
		Presently Australia is the smallest continent, and also the driest continent and the flattest (lowest in elevation) continent.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Australasia_ecozone (1143 words)

	Articles - Ecoregions of Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The ecoregions of Australia are geographically distinct plant and animal communities, defined by geology, soils, climate, and predominant vegetation.
		The WWF ecoregions are classified by biome type (Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands, tundra, etc.), and into one of eight terrestrial ecozones.
		Australia, together with New Zealand, New Guinea and neighboring island groups, is part of the Australasia ecozone.
	www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/Ecoregions_of_Australia (245 words)

	Community Biodiversity Network: Hot Issues: Declining Birds - 18 September 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Recent research from throughout the temperate woodlands of Australia has found that dozens of woodland birds are declining in total numbers and distribution.
		The factors leading to this decline are the loss of habitats due to land clearing, remaining remnant habitats being too small for bird populations to survive in the long-term, and remaining habitats being degraded by grazing, harvesting of mature hollow-bearing nesting trees for firewood, and a range of other impacts.
		The long term outlook for Australia's birds is not good, according to Professor Harry Recher, Chair of the National Biodiversity Council and one of Australia's senior biodiversity scientists.
	www.nccnsw.org.au /member/cbn/projects/EducationCentre/hi_birds.html (707 words)

	Community Biodiversity Network: Woodland Birds and the Brigalow Belt Woodlands of Queensland - 19 September 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Woodland Birds and the Brigalow Belt Woodlands of Queensland
		One of the major implications of a reduction in the number and diversity of woodland birds, is the effect it has on the woodland ecosystem.
		A diversity of woodland birds is important in keeping insect numbers on trees under control and reducing the incidence of dieback.
	www.nccnsw.org.au /member/cbn/projects/LifeLines6.3/SoB_Woodla.html (1350 words)

	The Wilderness Society - Australia's Beautiful Bushlands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As was the case in the southern woodlands, sheep and cattle were introduced at an early date and, after some of the bloodiest fighting in Australia, Aboriginal control of the country was lost.
		In the south-west of Western Australia, and in the drier rainshadow areas of central and western Tasmania, were distinct woodlands with unique species, such as Salmon Gum in the west.
		Broad-scale clearing in all the southern woodlands accelerated towards the latter part of the Nineteenth Century, and continued for the next hundred years, accelerating in many areas from the 1950's onwards with the increasing use of machinery to clear and develop land.
	www.wilderness.org.au /campaigns/landclearing/woodlands_overview (1537 words)

	Tropical Savannas CRC - All Regions - Plants & Animals: Savanna woodlands: Eucalypts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Eucalypt trees are synonymous with Australia, although a number of species also grow on islands to the north where they would have spread at times of lower sea levels.
		Woodlands dominated by this species cover almost 37 percent of Cape York Peninsula.
		Although they are known as evergreen trees, in northern Australia a number of eucalypt species respond to the seasonally dry conditions by dropping their leaves.
	savanna.ntu.edu.au /information/ar/the_big_three_euc.html (901 words)

	Armidale - A Burning Issue Firewood Conference: Session 1 - Firewood - Cutting and Collecting - Overall Impacts on ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As a consequence woodlands have a disproportionate number of threatened species and there is a wave of local and regional extinctions occurring amongst woodland birds (Robinson and Traill 1996; Reid 1999).
		Due to lower rainfall most of the trees in woodland and drier forest areas are generally slower growing and have denser timber, with greater heating value per volume, than most trees from wetter forest areas.
		Consequently it is from these woodland and dry forest areas that the bulk of firewood currently comes from in Australia.
	www.deh.gov.au /land/publications/firewood-conferences/armidale/woodlands.html (1541 words)

	NPA Western Woodlands Project: why this project? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A woodland is a vegetation community whose tallest element is trees and where the foliage, or tree canopy cover, is between 10 and 30 per cent.
		The temperate woodlands of Australia, with over 80% cleared for agriculture, are the most threatened treed ecosystems in Australia.
		The remaining woodlands are now effectively island fragments in a sea of crops and pasture.
	www.npansw.org.au /wwoodlands/biggerpicture.html (505 words)

	Australia Now - Australian Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry
		Australia, with its vast spaces, technical expertise and diverse climates, produces a wide range of highly sought after agricultural, fisheries and forestry products, and is internationally recognised as being free of many of the insects and agricultural diseases found in other parts of the world.
		Australia is one of the world's leading producers of cattle and is the world's largest exporter of beef.
		Australia's total food exports have grown to reach A$26.6 billion in 2002-03, this figure is 22 per cent of the total of all Australian merchandise exports.
	www.dfat.gov.au /facts/affaoverview.html (904 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Southwest Australia woodlands (AA1210)
		The herpetofauna of southwestern Australia is characterized by a highly endemic frog fauna: 30 species are known from this region, and all but two are endemic.
		Fifty percent of all mammalian extinctions of the last 200 years occurred in Australia (Short and Smith 1994), and a large portion of these extinctions were concentrated in Western Australia.
		Patterns in the modern decline of Western Australia’s vertebrate fauna: causes and conservation implications.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa1210_full.html (1321 words)

	The Environmental Group Limited
		A recent study using globally comprehensive and consistent satellite data estimated that the extent of the world’s remaining closed natural forests (where crown cover is more than 40 per cent) in 1995 was 2 870 million ha, about 21.4 per cent of the land area of the world.
		Old growth woodlands are now extremely rare - less than 100 hectares are left in Victoria, for example - and the condition of the remaining woodlands in southern Australia is poor.
		Australia's woodlands are being cleared at the rate of five thousand square kilometers per year, and our forests logged at the rate of two thousand square kilometers per year.
	www.environmental.com.au /p_enviro.forest.html (631 words)

	Re-birding Australia - ABC Science Online
		But an estimated 90 to 95 per cent of Australia's woodlands are gone and David Freudenberger's sobering message is that despite the good intentions, Australia's revegetation effort in recent years is a long way short of what is needed to sustain the remnant populations of these species.
		Woodland birds prefer to be hidden, this is a rare opportunity to see them up close.
		Freudenberg's research and the rebirding programs being promoted by Greening Australia are emerging as important innovations in the overall landcare effort as results of the past decade's revegetation campaign points to the need for a more strategic approach in the future.
	www.abc.net.au /science/slab/re-birding (1278 words)

	Ziziphus mauritiana bibliography - weeds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cryptostegia grandiflora and Ziziphus mauritiana are exotic shrubs that are invading tropical woodlands of northern Australia.
		Exotic shrubs are significant invaders of the tropical woodlands of northern Australia.
		Several exotic shrubs are significant invaders of the tropical woodlands of northern Australia.
	www.soton.ac.uk /~icuc/zizbib/ziz-wd2.htm (1036 words)

	CSIRO PUBLISHING - Australian Journal of Botany
		In the wheatbelts of south-western and south-eastern Australia, woodlands have been almost completely eliminated from the landscape with as little as 3% of some woodland types remaining.
		Woodlands now occur throughout much of their former range as remnants of varying size, quality and isolation.
		Past research on temperate eucalypt woodlands has focused on identifying the processes of degradation and these are now relatively well documented.
	www.publish.csiro.au /paper/BT96091.htm (300 words)

	Ecos : Do woodland trees improve pastures? In the eucalypt woodlands of Australia's far north, trees may actually be ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the eucalypt woodlands of Australia's far north, trees may actually be pasture friendly.
		As tree clearing continues apace in Australia, not least in Queensland, it is timely to consider the effect of trees on pasture growth and quality.
		In the eucalypt woodlands of Australia's far north, trees may actually be pasture friendly.' with a FREE Trial for instant access »
	static.highbeam.com /e/ecos/july012001/dowoodlandtreesimprovepasturesintheeucalyptwoodlan/index.html (256 words)

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		In: Hobbs R and Yates C (eds), Temperate Woodlands in Australia.
		The avian dispersal of olives Olea europaea: Implications for Australia.
		From cultivar to weed: the spread of olives in Australia.
	www.csu.edu.au /research/jcentre/2000publication.html (2070 words)

	Woodlands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Woodlands" is also a part of the name of:
		The Woodlands High School in The Woodlands, Texas.
		This is a disambiguation page — a list of topics associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Woodlands (89 words)

	Ctenotus - Australian Lizards
		They are found throughout much of Australia, but are most diverse in the desert regions and tropical woodlands of Australia's north.
		In the sand ridges and sand plains of the Great Victoria Desert in Western Australia, 11 species of Ctenotus are known to live in one area which has approximately 40 species of lizard in total.
		Lizards of the Ctenotus genus are commonly called 'comb-eared skinks' because of the row of small scales on the anterior edge of their ears.
	www.austmus.gov.au /factsheets/genus_ctenotus.htm (341 words)

	Abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The ecology of the urban corvid, the Australian raven (Corvus coronoides) in Perth, Western Australia.
		The study focussed on yate (Eucalyptus occidentalis) woodlands in the southern wheat belt region of Western Australia.
		Yate woodlands are found along the drainage lines in the lower parts of the landscape and are especially vulnerable to changes in groundwater levels.
	www.ecu.edu.au /pa/rswa/Postgrad/abstracts2002.htm (3235 words)

	FungiBank - Fungi in Australia’s temperate woodlands
		For example surveys in several remnant woodland vegetation patches near Kelleberrin in the Western Australian wheatbelt during three ‘fruiting seasons’ yielded 51 genera of native fungi.
		Abundant networks of fine fungal mycelium occur in woodland soil, and many woodland plants have mycorrhizas (see also the CSIRO Mycorrhiza website for more detail about Australian mycorrhiza).
		The dung of some small marsupials such as bettongs from Australian woodlands can contain abundant spores of truffle fungi, indicating an interdependency between the fungi and the animals (see the topic Fungi Feed Animals).
	www.fungibank.csiro.au /topic_3_1_3.htm (197 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Southwest Australia woodlands (AA1210) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Due to a mild, Mediterranean climate, these dry woodlands are filled with eucalyptus trees, including the bushy wandoo, york gum, and tuart tree.
		Scattered throughout the woodlands is the Christmas tree--technically a mistletoe plant and the only one to grow as a tree.
		During the day, small, squirrel-like numbats hunt for termites—an unusual diet for a marsupial, while red-tailed phascogales emerge at night to nibble on plants that are toxic to livestock.
	nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa1210.html (469 words)

	Ch07 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In certain countries (Australia, Morocco) woodlands may be managed as part of a grazing system and in many other areas grazing, whether intended or illegal, often occurs in natural forests.
		Management of dry-land woodlands is generally not intensive, even in forest reserves and does not involve much more than early burning and patrolling to control grazing, fuelwood harvesting, charcoal burning and prevention of agricultural encroachment.
		The application of measures to ensure conservation of woody vegetation involves a recognition of the value of forestry in linkage with other natural and agricultural resources:, the cooperation of rural populations and a reduction in the communications gap between government agricultural and forestry institutions as well as foresters and agriculturalists.
	www.fao.org /docrep/T0115E/T0115E07.htm (4863 words)

	The Wilderness Society: Land Clearing & Woodlands in Australia - 05 September 2002
		Old-growth woodlands are now extremely rare - less than 100 hectares are left in Victoria, for example - and the condition of most of the remaining woodlands in southern Australia is poor.
		Currently, every year in Australia more than 600,000 hectares (6,000 square kilometres) of our woodlands and forests are bulldozed to expand agricultural operations.
		And clearing is now moving into northern Australia in areas such as the Gulf Country in Queensland and the Top End in the Northern Territory.
	pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/20388/20030701/wilderness.org.au/projects/Woodlands/lc_nat.html (364 words)

	Birds on Farms and Remnants 2
		Remnants is a game where players describe the land use and environmental attributes of a farm in Australia's temperate woodlands.
		The results presented by Remnants are based on a two-year survey of birds on 330 farms in southern and eastern Australia, between 1995 and 1998.
		The Birds on Farms Survey was funded by the Thyne Reid Education Trust and Environment Australia's Natural Heritage Trust and the Norman Wettenhall Foundation.
	www.birdsaustralia.com.au /remnants (334 words)

	Woodlands Retreat - Porongurup Western Australia. Offering Luxury and Affordable Accommodation
		South West of WA Woodlands Retreat, a slice of Heaven, nestled against the Porongurup Range National Park in the South West of Western Australia, is superbly located on 40 acres of the Porongurup Range's South West Slopes.
		Enjoy the seclusion of a romantic weekend together, or bring friends and share the experience that is a Porongurup delight, Woodlands Retreat.
		Experience the ambience Woodlands Retreat offers with jarrah floors and pine ceilings throughout, a cosy log fire s/c, reverse cycle air conditioning, mood lighting, quality furnishings, TV, DVD/VCR and CD player.
	www.woodlandsretreat.net (203 words)

	Educational Tours Australia - Savanna Woodlands
		It is perhaps best seen as a spectrum; at one end the trees cluster together and it becomes a 'dry forest', while at the other end the trees are very widely spaced apart and it becomes a grassland.
		As vague as all this sounds, there are factors and features that determine and are indicative of tropical woodlands and savanna.
		Interestingly, an important part of these tropical woodlands are humans and their influence; thus in defining and recognizing tropical savanna and woodlands, especially in Africa, Asia and Australia, we also have to consider how much of an effect humans, grazing and fire have had in shaping this biome.
	www.educational-tours.com.au /australia/ecosystems/savanna_woodlands.html (263 words)

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