A study in Forest Ecosystems reveals that Australia's cool temperate rainforests are more disturbance-resilient than previously thought. Researchers found that Nothofagus moorei thrives under higher ...

the state in southeast Australia. Today, central New South Wales is mostly arid farmland. But, when the fish were alive during the Miocene epoch, the region was a lush, temperate rainforest.

Tasmania’s forests of giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) are dying as climate change shifts ocean currents, bringing warm water to the east coast of the temperate Australian island. The kelp ...

The cool forests surrounding the Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden may not seem like the perfect place to grow plants only ...

The temperate index is calculated from terrestrial and freshwater populations from the Palearctic and Nearctic realms, and marine populations found north or south of the tropics. The global tropical ...