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Forest Fact File - Rainforests

DCNR Views on Rainforetst in Victoria - from DCNR Facts Sheets

Types:

• Cool Temperate Rainforest in Otways, Central Highlands, Strezelecki Ranges, and Errinundra Plateau.
• Warm Temperate Raindforest - Errinundra Plateau

Some RF in Wilison's Promontory has characteristics of both cool and warm temperate rainforests.

Status: Quotes "Rainforest in Victoria is an extremely important botanical and landscape asset and therefore should be conserved and carefully managed."

"Rainforests are already protected in Victoria, either in reserves such as national parks or by management prescriptions. Timber harvesting is excluded.

Major Goals: 1. Conserve Rainforest. 2. maintain genetic diversity and potential for evolutionary development within rainfirest ecosystems. 3. increase public appreciation of the value of rainforest.

Defenition (fact sheet): ecologically as "closed broadleaves forest vegetation with a more or less contuinues rainforest tree canopy of variable hieght, and with characteristic composition of species and life forms.". "Rain forest canopy species are defined as shade tolerant species which are able to regenerate below an undisturbed canoopy or in small canopy gaps resulting from locally recurring minor disturbances, such as isolated windthrow or lighting strike, which are part of the rainforest ecosystem. Such species are not dependent on fire for their regeneration.".

Seek more reference on DCE Vic's RF, An Overview. Seddon, G. (1985) "The Characteristics of RF" Landscape Australia No.1 1985., Monash Rainforest Synposium.....

Reference: "Rainforest" Facts Sheet Department of Conservation and Natural Resouurces Victoria.

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