Review Article
Biodiversity of Terrestrial Ecosystems in Tropical to Temperate Australia
Table 1
The conservation status of major TWINSPAN Floristic Groups that contain the majority of plants and resident animals in Australia [
79].
| Formation/complex | No. of species analysed | Floristic groups number | Conservation reasonable |
| Rainforest | 1418 | 70 | 70% | Monsoon rainforest (N.T.) | 559 | 16 | 31% | Dry scrub (SE Qld) | 475 | 29 | 26% | Eucalypt open forest | 276 | 237 | 49% | Eucalypt communities (SW W.A.) | 1761 | 31 | 64% | Heathland/scrub | 2071 | 83 | 53% | Alpine heath and grassland | 556 | 24 | 67% | Grassland | 1313 | 23 | 13% | Mallee (including SW W.A.) | 395 | 62 | 41% | Desert Acacia | 1229 | 104 | 17% | Hummock grassland | 303 | 10 | 30% | Chenopod shrubland | 410 | 19 | 26% | Forested wetland | 835 | 29 | 24% | Freshwater swamp | 139 | 24 | 25% | Coastal dune vegetation | 315 | 16 | 69% | Coastal wetland | 74 | 32 | 47% | Sclerophyll (heathy) understorey | 2581 | 21 | 34% | Savanna (grassy) understorey | 1313 | 39 | 11% | Hummock grass understorey | 303 | 20 | 35% | Humid & arid wetland | 139 | 30 | 13% |
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