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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...
- 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...
- biologist T.H. Huxley that separates the biogeographical realms of Asia and 'Wallacea', a transitional zone between Asia and Australia also called the Malay...
- influenced by Australasian species. The Wallace Line, around which lies the Wallacea transitional region, notionally divides the two regions. There is diverse...
- 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...
- 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...
- Australasian realms. The islands east of the Wallace line are known as Wallacea, a separate biogeographical region that is considered part of Australasia...
- area. The region of islands between his line and New Guinea is now termed Wallacea. Indonesia's large and growing po****tion and rapid industrialisation present...
- and parts of Wallacea. In anthropology, "Papuan" is often used to denote the highly diverse aboriginal po****tions of Melanesia and Wallacea prior to the...
- the eastern half of Indonesia (east of the Wallace Line in the region of Wallacea) are considered to be geographically ****ociated with Oceania due to their...