wallum on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
Wallum, or wallum country, is an Australian
Coastal lowlands vegetation factsheet
PDF downloaded 23 July 2007
PDF downloaded 23 July 2007
Eastern Australian temperate forests Habitats {{habitat-stub
Wallum, or wallum country, is an Australian ecosystem
An ecosystem (or ecological system) consists of all the organisms and the physical environment with which they interact. These biotic and abiotic components are linked together through nutrient cycles and energy flows. Energy enters the syst ...
of coastal south-east Queensland
)
, nickname = Sunshine State
, image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg
, map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia
, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, established_ ...
, extending into north-eastern New South Wales
)
, nickname =
, image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg
, map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates:
, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, es ...
. It is characterised by flora-rich shrubland
Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterized by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes. Shrubland may either occur naturally or be the result of human activity. It ...
and heathland
A heath () is a shrubland habitat (ecology), habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths with—especially in Great B ...
on deep, nutrient-poor, acidic, sandy soils, and regular wildfire
A wildfire, forest fire, bushfire, wildland fire or rural fire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation. Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire may be more specifically identi ...
. Seasonal changes in the water table due to rainfall may create swamps. The name is derived from the Kabi Kabi or KABI may refer to:
Places
* Kabi Longstok, town in North Sikkim district, Sikkim, India
* Kabi, Sikkim, village in North Sikkim district, Sikkim, India
* Kabi River (''Kafu River''), river in Uganda
People
* Boris Kabi (born 1984), Ivorian ...
word for the wallum banksia ('' Banksia aemula'').
Threats
Wallum, as with other coastal ecosystems, is highly threatened by the pressure for coastal development. Threats include clearing of land for residential development and pine plantations, alterations to drainage from adjacent developments, nutrients from fertilizers, changes in fire frequency, pollution from mosquito control sprays, and the introduction of weeds. Species endemic to wallum include some acid frogs – frogs adapted to living and breeding in acidic waters – such as the wallum froglet (''Crinia tinnula''), wallum rocket frog ('' Litoria freycineti''), and the wallum sedge frog (''Litoria olongburensis''). In Queensland, theeastern ground parrot
The eastern ground parrot (''Pezoporus wallicus'') of Australia is one of only five ground-dwelling parrots in the world, the others being its closest relatives, the western ground parrot (''Pezoporus flaviventris''), the extremely rare night p ...
appears to be largely restricted to the wallum.
References
Coastal lowlands vegetation factsheet
PDF downloaded 23 July 2007
PDF downloaded 23 July 2007
External links
Eastern Australian temperate forests Habitats {{habitat-stub