Biodiversity of New Caledonia | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2018-12-29

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00:01:06 1 Location and description
00:05:13 1.1 Geologic origins
00:09:31 1.2 Early organisms
00:10:45 2 Evolution and history
00:13:57 2.1 Extinct species
00:15:21 3 Ecoregions
00:17:33 3.1 Dry forests
00:18:43 3.2 Rainforest
00:20:58 4 Flora
00:29:18 5 Fauna
00:35:16 5.1 Birds
00:36:55 6 Threats
00:39:46 7 Preservation
00:41:46 8 Gallery (landscapes)
00:41:57 9 Gallery (coral reef fish)
00:42:16 10 See also



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The biodiversity of New Caledonia is of exceptional biological and paleoecological interest. It is frequently referred to as a biodiversity hotspot. The country is a large South Pacific archipelago with a total land area of more than 18,000 square kilometres (6,900 sq mi). The terrain includes a variety of reefs, atolls, small islands, and a variety of topographical and edaphic regions on the largest island, all of which promote the development of unusually concentrated biodiversity. The region's climate is oceanic and tropical.
New Caledonia is separated from the nearest mainland by more than 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) of open sea. Its isolation dates from at least the mid-Miocene, and possibly from the Oligocene, and that isolation has preserved its relict biota, fostering the evolution of wide ranges of endemic species.