Seram

The salmon-crested cockatoo (also known as the Seram, Moluccan, pink-crested, or rose-crested cockatoo) is the largest and the most striking of Indonesia's white cockatoos.

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Similarly, Lydekker's Line, running from between Timor and the Australian shelf to between Halmahera, Seram, and New Guinea, marks the point where Australasian flora and fauna could not easily pass.

Sulawesi montane rain forests 2008

The bicoloured white-eye (Tephrozosterops stalkeri), the sole member of its genus, is also found only on Seram.

Seram rain forests 2008

The north Seram dipterocarp forests are still dominated by the endemic Shorea selanica and therefore are especially vulnerable to logging.

Seram rain forests 2008

This ecoregion represents the semi-evergreen and moist forests of Seram and associated islands in the easternmost section of the Indonesian Archipelago.

Seram rain forests 2008

We created the Banda Sea Islands Moist Deciduous Forests by combining the islands in the Kai and Tanimbar archipelagos, which were distinguished as a biogeographic unit by Monk et al. The primary vegetation on the islands in both these archipelagos is moist deciduous forests and semi-evergreen forests, whereas the vegetation in the other, nearby large islands (Seram and Aru) is evergreen rain forests.

Halmahera rain forests 2008

Seram, the larger island to the east of Buru, was also delineated as an ecoregion: Seram Rain Forests.

Halmahera rain forests 2008

The natural vegetation of Seram is tropical lowland evergreen, semi-evergreen, and montane rain forest.

Seram rain forests 2008

Together with Seram, Buru, and the Banda Sea Islands, this island group forms part of a bioregion with perhaps the highest levels of bird endemism for its size anywhere in the world and the highest number of endemic birds of any area in Asia.

Halmahera rain forests 2008

Seram is part remnant crustal fragment, probably from the Australian continent, and part of the volcanic Inner Banda Arc. Consequently, the surface geology of Seram is complex, consisting of older metamorphic schists and gneiss, younger volcanics, and recent alluvium.

Seram rain forests 2008