Ecosystem, monsoon forest

These ecosystems are in a monsoon climate. The Dense Deciduous Forest, Dense Deciduous Broad Leaf Forest, Open Deciduous Broad Leaf Woodland are the predominant ecosystem types. 

Only the northernmost pan of Australia (Cape York, Kimberley and the Arnhem Land peninsula) falls in the belt of equatorial monsoons. It is characterized by Tropical Rain Forest, Afforested Savanna and Light Forest ecosystems on Ferrasols and Nitosols, at places, lateritized soils. The sonthern fringe of the continent, its southwestern and sonlheastem parts, and also the island of Tasmania fall in the subtropical zone in the belt of westerly cyclonic cnrrents of air masses. They experience winter in the Sonthern Hemisphere. A dry snmmer and winter rains impart the characteristics of a Mediterranean snbtropical climate and determine the appearance of Dry Forest and Brnsh ecosystems on different Cambisols. 

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