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The islands of Sundaland rest on Asia's shallow Continental Shelf . During the Ice Age s, sea levels were lower and all of Sundaland was an extension of the Asian continent. As a result, the islands of Sundaland are home to many Asian mammals, including Monkey s, Ape s, Tiger s, Tapir s, and Rhinoceros . The Wallace line, which includes the Lombok Strait between Bali and Lombok , and the Makassar Strait between Borneo and Sulawesi , marks the end of the Asian continental shelf, and the islands of Wallacea are separated from Asia and from Australia and New Guinea by deep ocean. Botanists often include Sundaland, Wallacea, the Philippines and New Guinea in a single Floristic Province of Malesia , based on similarities in their flora, which is predominantly of Asian origin. ECOREGIONS OF SUNDALAND Tropical And Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Tropical And Subtropical Coniferous Forests SEE ALSO
EXTERNAL LINK SELECTED FAUNAL REFERENCES IN BORNEO Abdullah MT. 2003. Biogeography and variation of ''Cynopterus brachyotis'' in Southeast Asia. PhD thesis. The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia. Corbet, GB, Hill JE. 1992. The mammals of the Indomalayan region: a systematic review. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Hall LS, Gordon G. Grigg, Craig Moritz, Besar Ketol, Isa Sait, Wahab Marni and M.T. Abdullah. 2004. Biogeography of fruit bats in Southeast Asia. Sarawak Museum Journal LX(81):191-284. Karim, C., A.A. Tuen and M.T. Abdullah. 2004. Mammals. Sarawak Museum Journal Special Issue No. 6. 80: 221—234. Mohd. Azlan J., Ibnu Maryanto , Agus P. Kartono and M.T. Abdullah. 2003 Diversity, Relative Abundance and Conservation of Chiropterans in Kayan Mentarang National Park, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Sarawak Museum Journal 79: 251-265. Hall LS, Richards GC, Abdullah MT. 2002. The bats of Niah National Park, Sarawak. Sarawak Museum Journal. 78: 255-282. Wilson DE, Reeder DM. 2005. Mammal species of the world. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC. |
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