Native to the American tropics, morpho butterflies are distinguished by their brilliant iridescent blue wings. |
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Stored this way, fish from the tropics will last quite some considerable time in cold storage, at least five days. |
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In addition, the raffia palms, of which there are various species in the African tropics and a few in S. America, yield oil. |
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It was a sharp jut of rock on the top of a hill, a bare landscape amongst the tropics of the jungle. |
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He was knighted for this work in 1911, but was forced to retire from foreign service due to adverse affects of the tropics on his health. |
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Unless you live in the tropics, even the most toned among us is apt to uncover lackluster skin when summer comes. |
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Yields of cereal grains are likely to decrease in the tropics where many countries are already under water stress. |
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The dreamy peace of a quiet anchorage took possession of us, deepened by the languor of the tropics. |
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These natives of the American tropics are commonly called zebra plants due to the characteristic striped foliage. |
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But its leakiness grew worse in the tropics, and an inspection of the careened vessel in the Gulf of Carpentaria revealed the worst. |
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Government policy has tried to stop or at least restrict slash-and-burn cultivation, both in Finland earlier and in the tropics today. |
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Australia is a big country, stretching from the tropics to the roaring forties, and it has a correspondingly wide range of climates. |
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The highlight, though, was our encounter with two army ant swarms, the most-sought after phenomenon in Latin American tropics. |
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Tamarinds may be eaten fresh, but they are most commonly used with sugar and water in the American tropics to prepare a cooling drink. |
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It's strange how even construction techniques in the tropics can seem exotic. |
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A widely known garden climber, the scarlet Rangoon creeper is a native of Africa which was introduced in the tropics as a popular ornamental. |
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An estimated 50 billion of the 200-400 billion birds on the earth make predictable seasonal movements between the temperate zone and the tropics. |
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The worm commonly known as dog heart worm, is widely dispersed and found in the tropics, subtropics and temperate zones. |
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The North Atlantic thermohaline circulation, which currently warms Europe by transporting heat from the tropics, weakens in the models. |
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The coconut tree is a palm, usually tall, which flourishes on seashores in the moister parts of the tropics. |
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The tops were planted where the sailors landed and by the late 1500s, pineapple was widespread in the tropics. |
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Climatic cooling, whether it is on a short or a long timescale, tends to cool the poles more than the tropics. |
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Many species of membracid treehoppers, especially in the tropics, have mutualistic relationships with honeydew-harvesting ants. |
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This is thought to be a proximate explanation that results in the tropics being more biodiverse than the temperate zone. |
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In the tropics, you can still find other, less desirable banana varieties, mainly grown as a starchy food staple rather than a sweet treat. |
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Generally, breeding seasons tend to be longer in the tropics than in the temperate zone. |
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Even in the tropics the water is rarely at body temperature so you will eventually lose heat. |
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Transfusion-induced malaria continues its resurgence throughout much of the tropics and subtropics. |
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Common in the tropics, many species of bamboo grow in temperate climates as well. |
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Since we all stand to lose if the rich biological capital of the tropics is eroded, this is our problem too. |
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Typhoid fever continues to be a global health problem, especially in the tropics and subtropics. |
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The retreat of some taxa to the tropics and subtropics is partly explained by climatic cooling beginning in the Oligocene. |
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Each subtropical gyre is created by mountainous flows of air moving from the tropics toward the polar regions. |
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This sets up a system of interconnected deep and shallow currents that transport heat from the tropics to higher latitudes. |
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The group is normally confined to the tropics but some species are found in the temperate latitudes of the southern hemisphere. |
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Between 1970 and 2004 the average sea surface temperature in the tropics rose nearly 1 degree. |
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It is mainly cultivated for its dry seeds and green vegetable in dry areas of the tropics and subtropics. |
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As a result, shells are comparatively thick and ornate in the tropics, and thin and plain at temperate and polar latitudes. |
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Even if you don't live in the tropics, you can enjoy exotic tropicals in your garden. |
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For instance, a trough can dip down into the tropics to bring high-altitude winds blowing from the West. |
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Shorts, shirts and trouser should be made from a material that has been made for the tropics. |
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If we can afford it, we escape the cold and bitter winds of northern Alberta to the soul-restoring warmth and relaxation of the tropics. |
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Most tun shells can be found living in sand, in the tropics beyond the edge of the coral reef. |
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Such herbaceous monocots are envisaged as evolving in the relatively uniform environment of the moist tropics. |
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The monsoon trough is a broad area of low atmospheric pressure running east-west through the tropics in the summer months. |
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Sometimes you will find the best kayaking tours in the tropics or the ocean. |
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The tree is native to South America but is widely cultivated throughout the tropics. |
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Native to the Old World tropics, it is naturalized at scattered locations in the southern United States from California to Virginia. |
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Who would want to cut a hole in the ice and dive beneath it, when you can go to the tropics and do it without a drysuit? |
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Each technique has been validated against laboratory standards and has been tested throughout the tropics in a variety of ecological contexts. |
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Rubber is currently grown on 7-8 million hectares of plantations in the humid tropics. |
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The statue's sky globe, which is 26 inches in diameter, shows 41 Greek constellations, as well as the celestial equator, tropics and ecliptic. |
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My favourite subjects are exotic birds, bold flowers and the lush plantlife of the tropics and the subtropics. |
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Members of the family are unusual aquatic angiosperms growing on rocks in rapids and waterfalls in the world's tropics and subtropics. |
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They're cruising through the tropics, and their biggest worry is whether to use SPF 20 or 30 sunscreen. |
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At the moment they are honeymooning in the tropics, so let's hope they bring back the sunshine. |
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He uses light and shadows, natural vegetation and bright colors of the tropics to paint Caribbean Victorians and palms. |
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Goatfish sometimes go by the nickname surmullets and their 40 or so species are widespread throughout the tropics. |
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In the tropics, where life's maximal abundance is, the young offspring remains unrecognized and nameless unless scientifically described. |
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These are well-named and can be observed swimming at the surface on almost every passage by boat in the tropics. |
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While the plants originated in the tropics, their companionableness seems to have been a North American discovery. |
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Deep within me I rediscovered the man of the American tropics, the geographical man accustomed to an intimacy with nature. |
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Her formula for stimulating warm thoughts of the tropics by applying flamboyant colours to fluid fabrics is paying off. |
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Just as sunlight and its warmth are invigorating in cold climates, in the tropics it is the coolness of shade that allows people to be active. |
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Many thousands of cnidarian species live in the world's oceans, from the tropics to the poles, from the surface to the bottom. |
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I was fully prepared for the agonising stench as I entered the wet tropics zone of the Princess of Wales Conservatory, but I was disappointed. |
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It was my first cookery book and taught me everything I know about cookery in the tropics. |
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He'd relate his waking up to the birds singing in the tropics, the dreaded mosquitoes, his excursions to the local market. |
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In this paddock west of Brisbane, at the Gatton campus of the University of Queensland, are the Brahman cross breed of cattle that you see throughout the tropics. |
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The proportions may be different in the polar regions and the tropics. |
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The sunny weather somehow morphed into gales, bright sunny intervals, a thunderstorm that would not have been out of place in the tropics and light showers. |
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Each year, the tropics are battered by up to 40 hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones, while floods and landslides occur everywhere in numbers too great to keep track of. |
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The rays of the sun heat the tropics, and this causes convection to occur. |
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In the warm, humid tropics, where humans evolved, yeasts on the fruit skin and within the fruit convert sugars into various forms of alcohol, the most common being ethanol. |
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To allay anxiety about deleterious perspiration and open pores in the miasmatic tropics, the British insisted on wearing thick flannel next to the skin. |
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The Indica group is found in lowland paddies of the tropics. |
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It is extensively cultivated in marginal rainfall areas of the tropics and subtropics, and selected varieties are widely grown in temperate climates. |
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Thus the clear sky value at sea level in the tropics would normally be in the range 10-12 and 10 is an exceptionally high value for northern midlatitudes. |
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One of the reservations in my mind about going out to the tropics was the number of insects and other creepy-crawlies which were bound to predominate in these parts. |
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It is suitable for the tropics with tick and eye cancer resistance from the Zebu with the meat characteristics of the shorthorn, and is hardy, coping with all conditions. |
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The genus Pilea, a member of the family Urticaceae, contains over 200 species of herbaceous perennials and annuals found in the tropics except Australia. |
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In certain areas of the tropics where clownfish, sea anemone, and butterfly fish exist, clownfish scare off butterflyfish from their host anemone. |
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Wearing fur in the tropics is not Giroux 's idea of comfort. |
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I suspect that it was imported to Korea within the last 600 years as Korea's climate is ill suited for the Mugunghwa, which thrives in the tropics. |
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The genus is confined to the tropics and subtropics, with 22 species occurring in the Americas and 12 species found in Africa, Madagascar and the Middle East. |
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It's not unusual to see dolphins cavorting near the boat when in the tropics, but during one trip we saw a humpback whale lumbering along in its own beautiful way. |
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This vine, native to tropical South America, thrives throughout the tropics and subtropics and is probably the best known of the ones listed here. |
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They are concentrated in the tropics and subtropics, mainly of the Indo-Pacific, but some marine species can be found in the subarctic streams of southern Siberia. |
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Some toxic chemicals travel through a global distillation process, wherein they evaporate in the tropics and are transported in the air stream to the poles. |
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Though the original homes of most of the wild balsams are the Old World tropics, not much has been done to cultivate this ornamental plant in the country in new areas. |
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In the hot, humid conditions of the Asian tropics, buildings are traditionally elevated above ground, with overhanging eaves and thin permeable walls to encourage ventilation. |
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Naipaul refers to a campaign in Trinidad against the use of the poem as a set text because daffodils do not grow in the tropics. |
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Just don't expect to find out why there are polar bears in the tropics and what's down the hatch. |
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Because most rudists lived in the tropics, their die-offs give the impression that the K-T catastrophe focused there, says Raup. |
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Doing the white-collar thing after graduating, Paul led a secret dare-devil life, luging through Europe and white-water-rafting in the tropics. |
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Growing widely throughout the tropics, these small trees form dense clusters of long bladelike leaves. |
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The sponge in the study, Euplectella, lives in the depths of the ocean in the tropics and grows to about half a foot in length. |
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The seasonality of influenza in the tropics complicates vaccination timing. |
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The next plant to stop me in my tracks is the equally exotic flamingo flower, which hails from the tropics of the Americas. |
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Birds are departing for the tropics, and for the Monarch butterfly, the great fall migration has begun. |
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Legume Family trees are widely distributed around the world, growing from the tropics to the frigid zones. |
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A real show-stopper of a bulb is Fritillaria imperialis Aurora which adds a touch of the tropics with its orange blooms. |
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That's because air circulation in the stratosphere causes gases from the tropics to circle around Earth and move toward the poles. |
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Its nearest living relative is the sunbittern of the New World tropics, although it appears closer kin to extinct New Zealand birds. |
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It provides a species-by-species account of cotingas and manikins, two large families of colorful birds from the American tropics. |
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Generally, there is an increase in biodiversity from the poles to the tropics. |
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While hotspots are spread all over the world, the majority are forest areas and most are located in the tropics. |
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Swans are generally found in temperate environments, rarely occurring in the tropics. |
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At least two clutches are usually laid, and up to seven a year may be laid in the tropics or four a year in temperate latitudes. |
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A majority of orchids are perennial epiphytes, which grow anchored to trees or shrubs in the tropics and subtropics. |
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Pest control of the crops is less difficult than within the tropics, due to the cooler winters. |
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Areas with wet seasons are dispersed across portions of the tropics and subtropics. |
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In upper layer water, the Agulhas rings and eddies move warm and salty water into the large South Atlantic gyre, which exports it to the tropics. |
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The live food fish trade has been implicated as a driver of decline due to the use of cyanide and disaster for peoples living in the tropics. |
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At this same time, fresh surface salinity is advected from the rainy regions in the tropics. |
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In the tropics, the rainy season is provoked by the tropical air masses and the dry winters by subtropical high pressure. |
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In China, Korea and Japan however, two generations are normal, and in the tropics, multiple generations are expected. |
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The young graduate, Charles Darwin, had hoped to see the tropics before becoming a parson, and took this opportunity. |
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Together with the rest of the Philippines, Manila lies entirely within the tropics. |
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When the trade winds are weaker, more extensive areas of rain fall upon landmasses within the tropics, such as Central America. |
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Cotton is a perennial crop in the tropics, and without defoliation or freezing, the plant will continue to grow. |
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Sweet potatoes rarely flower when the daylight is longer than 11 hours, as is normal outside of the tropics. |
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In the tropics, the crop can be maintained in the ground and harvested as needed for market or home consumption. |
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It is widely grown in the tropics and subtropics, being important to both small and large commercial producers. |
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Hawaii, although being in the tropics, experiences many different climates, depending on latitude and its geography. |
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Ancient woodland in the UK, like rainforest in the tropics, is home to rare and threatened species. |
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The peregrine's breeding range includes land regions from the Arctic tundra to the tropics. |
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Leafcutter ants in the tropics bring leaf fragments back to their nest, which provides food for a type of soil fungus. |
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They typically grow in cold or wet habitats, and in the tropics, are most common in montane environments. |
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When this occurs over the tropics in concert with the Intertropical Convergence Zone, it is known as a monsoon trough. |
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I had come from New England, and did not understand the woodlessness of the tropics. |
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Kapok is now seen throughout the tropics mainly because it was extensively cultivated for the fibrous kapok found in mature fruit capsules. |
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The Andean families are not subject to the same climatological forces affecting species in the lowland tropics. |
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Houses had been deserted, and the thick brushwood of the tropics had grown up over everything, obliterating the brief authority of man. |
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The capture is apparently lower in the tropics, at least from what I have experienced as a collembologist. |
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Erethizontids inhabit a broad variety of habitats, from tundra to the tropics and from dense forests to open settings. |
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In geography, temperate or tepid latitudes of Earth lie between the tropics and the polar regions. |
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The majority of peasant farmers in the tropics allow the calf to suckle before milking in order to obtain a let-down of milk. |
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The vast majority of Southeast Asia falls within the warm, humid tropics, and its climate generally can be characterised as monsoonal. |
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It is also the only country to have contiguous territory both inside and outside the tropics. |
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The appearance of migratory behaviour occurred in the tropics parallel with the range expansion of migratory species to temperate habitats. |
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The flesh of mackerel spoils quickly, especially in the tropics, and can cause scombroid food poisoning. |
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Flatfishes are found in oceans worldwide, ranging from the Arctic, through the tropics, to Antarctica. |
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In the tropics, green turtles nest throughout the year, although some subpopulations prefer particular times of the year. |
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Some ducks, such as the garganey Anas querquedula, move completely or partially into the tropics. |
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There is evidence that snowfalls were common in the higher latitudes and the tropics became wetter than during the Triassic and Jurassic. |
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Migratory species' reproductive sites often lie in the tropics and their feeding grounds in polar regions. |
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The surface zone is typically thicker in the tropics than in regions of higher latitude. |
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The transition to colder, denser water is more abrupt in the tropics than in regions of higher latitudes. |
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Ocean currents greatly affect Earth's climate by transferring heat from the tropics to the polar regions. |
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International agreements provide a measure of protection, but adults and eggs of some species are still used for food in the tropics. |
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Resin from the extinct species Hymenaea protera is the source of Dominican amber and probably of most amber found in the tropics. |
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This is not a neatly trimmed park but a stream-laced tangle of grasses, wild grapes, and oaks, nearly as multilayered as the gallery forests of the tropics. |
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There is a strong correlation between the unpalatability of brown algae in the tropics and the presence of secondary compounds such as terpenoids or prenylated phenolics. |
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They monitored eight species of neotropical migrant birds, which breed in North America and winter in the tropics, and observed nests of the northern cardinal. |
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Pyomyositis is a primary suppurative infection of the skeletal muscle which was initially found in the tropics but is increasingly seen in temperate areas. |
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Native to the tropics of East Africa, shoebills mainly live in the northeastern African Sudd, one of the largest and least-explored wetlands in the world. |
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The temperature gradient between the tropics and the Arctic starts to steepen as the Arctic winter sets in and that drives storm formation in the North Atlantic. |
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Because I am constantly at risk from attacking flies, chiggers, ticks and mosquitoes both here and in the tropics, I'm perennially looking for reliable protection. |
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Groupers are species of fish in several genera that are important biologically and commercially in rocky coasts and coral reefs in much of the tropics and subtropics. |
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Unlike the dry summer Mediterranean climates, humid subtropical climates have a warm and wet flow from the tropics that creates warm and moist conditions in the summer months. |
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The flow out of the subtropical highs and the summer monsoon creates a southerly flow from the tropics that brings warm and moist air to the lower east sides of continents. |
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The main produce from the pacific is copra or coconut, but timber, beef, palm oil, cocoa, sugar and ginger are also commonly grown across the tropics of the Pacific. |
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Diversity consistently measures higher in the tropics and in other localized regions such as the Cape Floristic Region and lower in polar regions generally. |
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Because of the sea level drop since the Eemian, exposed fossil coral reefs are common in the tropics, especially in the Caribbean and along the Red Sea coastlines. |
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Coastal areas in the tropics are popular in both summer and winter. |
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One theory suggests that the microscopic, yeastlike fungus only recently arrived in the Northwest from the tropics, where it's long been established, Bartlett said. |
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It does have botanical connections with the tropics, being the northernmost member of the Custard Apple family, which includes such delicacies as the cherimoya and soursop. |
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The bigeye thresher shark is one of three sharks in the family Alopiidae, which occupy pelagic, neritic, and shallow coastal waters throughout the tropics and subtropics. |
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In the temperate portions of the earth, those forests tend to be needleleaf trees, while in the tropics, they can be broadleaf trees growing in a rain forest. |
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Subtropical climates can occur at high elevations within the tropics, such as in the southern end of the Mexican Plateau and in Vietnam and Taiwan. |
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Nesting females have been preyed upon by jaguars in the American tropics. |
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They are absent from continental Antarctica, parts of the high Arctic, central Greenland, northern and central Australia, and much of the lowland tropics and neotropics. |
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Rhinosporidiosis occurs in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia but is most common in the tropics, with the highest prevalence in southern India and Sri Lanka. |
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These conditions apparently had little effect in the deep tropics, where lush swamps, later to become coal, flourished to within 30 degrees of the northernmost glaciers. |
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It is carried into the stratosphere by rising air in the tropics. |
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They also carry heat energy away from the tropics and transport it toward temperate latitudes, which may play an important role in modulating regional and global climate. |
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The designs burst with the lush greens and vibrant colors of the tropics, with tropical motifs, fruits and birds, exquisitely handworked and printed on satin. |
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It came at last with a mother-of-pearl sheen at the zenith, such as I had never seen before in the tropics, unglowing, almost grey, with a strange reminder of high latitudes. |
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