Abstract
The jarrah forest is found in the south-western region of Australia, where the climate is conventionally described as mediterranean. In Köppen’s notation (1936 and earlier works) the characteristics of this climate are C (warm temperate, coldest month below 18°C) and s (driest summer month receiving less than one-third as much rain as the wettest winter month).
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Gentilli, J. (1989). Climate of the jarrah forest. In: Dell, B., Havel, J.J., Malajczuk, N. (eds) The Jarrah Forest. Geobotany, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3111-4_3
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