kwongan

The kwongan vegetation contains a wide range of nectar-feeding animals, including insects, honeyeaters (Meliphagidae), honey possums (Tarsipes rostratus), and pygmy possums (Cercartetus concinnus).

Southwest Australia woodlands 2008

Root disease is now spreading to other habitats, including kwongan shrublands, and in particular Stirling Range National Park, where it has caused mortality among susceptible plants like the peculiar grass trees (Xanthorrhoea spp.) and members of the Proteaceae, especially the banksias (Banksia spp.).

Biological diversity in Southwest Australia 2008

A number of vegetation units are endemic, including some types of Eucalyptus forests and some forms of kwongan.

Biological diversity in Southwest Australia 2008

Non-volant mammalian pollinators are also found here, as well as in the ecologically similar kwongan vegetation of southwestern Australia.

Montane fynbos and renosterveld 2008

Generally, kwongan scrub heath grows on sandy plains and swales and on lateritic upland soils while mallee eucalyptus woodland grows on duplex soils of upper valley slopes.

Swan Coastal Plain scrub and woodlands 2007

Three quarters of the world's carnivorous Drosera species are found in Western Australia, many of them in the kwongan and sandplain heaths, obtaining nitrogen and phosphorus from the insects they capture.

Swan Coastal Plain scrub and woodlands 2007

To state that South African fynbos, Australian kwongan, and Californian chaparral are "fire-resistant" is strange, for they are among the most fire-promoting plant communities known, with fynbos being reduced to little but ash after a blaze.

In the Primordial Soup Flannery, Tim 2000