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    Wallacea /wɒˈleɪsiə/ is a biogeographical designation for a group of mainly Indonesian islands separated by deep-water straits from the Asian and Australian...
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  • Wallacea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ochnaceae. It includes three species of shrubs or trees native to Colombia, Venezuela, and northern...
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    influenced by Australasian species. The Wallace Line, around which lies the Wallacea transitional region, notionally divides the two regions. There is diverse...
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    Maluku Islands (category Wallacea)
    Sulawesi, west of New Guinea, and north and east of Timor. Lying within Wallacea (mostly east of the biogeographical Weber Line), the Moluccas have been...
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    Lesser Sunda Islands (category Wallacea)
    Southeast Asia. Most of the Lesser Sunda Islands are located within the Wallacea region, except for the Bali province which is west of the Wallace Line...
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    Wallace Line (category Wallacea)
    biologist T.H. Huxley that separates the biogeographical realms of Asia and 'Wallacea', a transitional zone between Asia and Australia also called the Malay...
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    Malesia (section Wallacea)
    Dipterocarps in 11 genera. The islands between Sundaland and New Guinea, called Wallacea, were never linked to the neighboring continents, and have a flora and...
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    Australasian realms. The islands east of the Wallace line are known as Wallacea, a separate biogeographical region that is considered part of Australasia...
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    and parts of Wallacea. In anthropology, "Papuan" is often used to denote the highly diverse aboriginal populations of Melanesia and Wallacea prior to the...
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    area. The region of islands between his line and New Guinea is now termed Wallacea. Indonesia's large and growing population and rapid industrialisation present...
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    the eastern half of Indonesia (east of the Wallace Line in the region of Wallacea) are considered to be geographically associated with Oceania due to their...
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    the Moluccas and Lombok through Timor) form the biogeographical area of Wallacea, a transition zone between the Indomalayan and Australasian realms populated...
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    The collared kingfisher (Todiramphus chloris) is a medium-sized kingfisher belonging to the subfamily Halcyoninae, the tree kingfishers. It is also known...
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    biogeographical region (Sundaland) and the Australasian biogeographical Region (Wallacea). The line runs through the Indonesian Archipelago, between Borneo and...
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    to the infraclass Marsupialia. They are primarily found in Australasia, Wallacea, and the Americas. One of the defining features of marsupials is their...
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    Laurel forest, also called laurisilva or laurissilva, is a type of subtropical forest found in areas with high humidity and relatively stable, mild temperatures...
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    collision of the Australian and Asian plates pushed up the islands of Wallacea, which were separated from one another by narrow straits, allowing a botanic...
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    neither the latter nor their close relatives seem to have ever reached Wallacea, let alone the Philippines. Nonetheless, their inclusion in the Sturnidae...
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    mythology Negrito (of Leyte, Agusan del Norte and Surigao) Papuan peoples Wallacea Keesing, Roger M.; Kahn, Miriam (21 April 2023). "Melanesian culture"....
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    Evy; Iskandar, Djoko T. and McGuire Jimmy A.; ‘ Toxic toad invasion of Wallacea: A biodiversity hotspot characterized by extraordinary endemism’; Global...
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    separates the two main landmasses. The collision also pushed up the islands of Wallacea, which served as island 'stepping-stones' that allowed plants from Southeast...
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    ecosystem, which is known to be rich in unique biodiversity and is included in Wallacea. The canal will potentially damage the world's ocean current system and...
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    Mauritius kestrel Falco punctatus Mauritius Spotted kestrel Falco moluccensis Wallacea and Java. Nankeen kestrel or Australian kestrel Falco cenchroides Australia...
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  • Raymond; Purnomo, Gludhug A. (December 2022). "Human Genetic Research in Wallacea and Sahul: Recent Findings and Future Prospects". Genes. 13 (12): 2373...
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    Raymond; Purnomo, Gludhug A. (16 December 2022). "Human Genetic Research in Wallacea and Sahul: Recent Findings and Future Prospects". Genes. 13 (12): 2373...
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    The Wallace, Weber, and Lydekker Lines, the three principal biogeographic boundaries in Wallacea...
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    Littlefield. pp. 178–. ISBN 978-0-389-20507-4. Teresa Zubi (25 October 2015). "Wallacea". Starfish. Archived from the original on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 26 May...
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    These peoples had made the (shortened) sea-crossing from the islands of Wallacea and Sundaland (the present Malay Archipelago) by at least 40,000 years...
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    and Asia (the Middle East, South Asia, the Far East, and New Guinea and Wallacea); in some thirteen of these regions people began to cultivate grasses and...
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    system, the Australasia realm includes Australia, Tasmania, the islands of Wallacea, New Guinea, the East Melanesian Islands, New Caledonia, and New Zealand...
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