Editing Temperate rainforest (section)

==== Australian temperate rainforests ====
[[File:CSIRO ScienceImage 541 Cool Temperate Rainforest Tasmania.jpg|thumb|[[Nothofagus cunninghamii|Myrtle Beech]] temperate rainforest in [[Tasmania]], [[Australia]]]]
[[File:Antarctic beech trees on Border Track in Lamington National Park, Queensland.jpg|alt=|thumb|[[Nothofagus moorei|Antarctic beech]] trees in [[Lamington National Park]], [[Queensland]], Australia]]
[[File:Marriott Falls Vegetation.jpg|alt=|thumb|''[[Dicksonia antarctica]]'' tree ferns in temperate rainforest in [[Tasmania]], Australia]]
{{See also|Eastern Australian temperate forests|Rainforest in Victoria (Australia)}}

In [[Australia]] rainforests occur near the mainland east coast and in [[Tasmania]]. There are warm-temperate and cool-temperate rainforests. They are [[Broad-leaved tree|broadleaf]] [[evergreen]] forests with the exception of [[Montane forest|montane]] rainforests of Tasmania. [[Eucalyptus|Eucalypt]] forests are not classified as rainforests although some eucalypt forest types receive high annual [[rainfall]] (to over 2000&nbsp;mm in Tasmania<ref name=Reid>Reid, J. B. and Hill, R. S. (2005) ''Vegetation of Tasmania'', Australian Biological Resources Study, {{ISBN|064644512X}}</ref>), and in the absence of [[Wildfire|fire]] they may develop to rainforest. If these widespread [[wet sclerophyll]] forests were considered rainforests, the total area of rainforest in Australia would be much larger.<ref>{{cite journal |title=A Physiognomic Classification of Australian Rain Forests|first1=Len|last1=Webb| author-link=Leonard Webb (academic) | journal = Journal of Ecology| publisher=British Ecological Society : Journal of Ecology Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 551-570|date=1 Oct 1959|volume = 47|issue = 3|pages = 551–570|doi = 10.2307/2257290|jstor = 2257290|bibcode=1959JEcol..47..551W }}</ref>

Warm-temperate rainforest replaces subtropical rainforest on poorer soils or with increasing altitude and latitude in [[New South Wales]] and [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]. Cool-temperate rainforests are widespread in Tasmania ([[Tasmanian temperate rainforests]] ecoregion) and they can be found scattered from the [[World Heritage]] listed [[Border Ranges National Park]] and [[Lamington National Park]] on the NSW/Queensland border to [[Otway Ranges]], [[Strzelecki Ranges]], [[Dandenong Ranges]] and [[Tarra-Bulga National Park|Tarra Bulga]] in Victoria. In the northern NSW they are usually dominated by Antarctic Beech (''[[Nothofagus moorei]]''), in the southern NSW by Pinkwood (''[[Eucryphia moorei]]'') and Coachwood (''[[Ceratopetalum apetalum]]'') and in Victoria and Tasmania by Myrtle Beech (''[[Nothofagus cunninghamii]]''), Southern Sassafras (''[[Atherosperma moschatum]]'') and Mountain Ash (''[[Eucalyptus regnans]]'').<ref name=harden>Harden, G., McDonald, B. & Williams, J. (2006). ''Rainforest Trees and Shrubs.'' Gwen Harden Publishing, Nambucca Heads. {{ISBN|978-0-9775553-0-7}}</ref> The montane rainforests of Tasmania are dominated by Tasmanian [[endemism|endemic]] [[conifer]]s (mainly ''[[Athrotaxis]]'' spp.).<ref name=Reid/> They are dominated by Ferns such as ''[[Cyathea cooperi]]'', ''[[Cyathea australis]]'', ''[[Dicksonia antarctica]]'', ''[[Cyathea cunninghamii]]'' and ''[[Cyathea leichhardtiana]]''.