The more humid regions have a richer vegetation ; dense forest where the rainfall is greatest and variations of temperature least, conditions found chiefly on the tropical coasts, and in the west African equatorial basin with its extension towards the upper Nile ; and savanna interspersed with trees on the greater part of the plateaus, passing as the desert regions are approached into a scrub vegetation consisting of thorny acacias, etc.

A relatively dry tropical savanna, the Sahel extends beyond the borders of Burkina Faso, from the Horn of Africa to the Atlantic Ocean, and borders the Sahara to its north and the fertile region of the Sudan to the South.

The soudanian region is predominantly East Sudanian savanna, or plains covered with a mixture of tropical or subtropical grasses and woodlands.

The five primary classifications can be further divided into secondary classifications such as rain forest, monsoon, tropical savanna, humid subtropical, humid continental, oceanic climate, Mediterranean climate, steppe, subarctic climate, tundra, polar ice cap, and desert.

vast central plateau covered by tropical rainforest, surrounded by mountains in the west, plains and savanna in the south / southwest, and grasslands in the north.

For example, one population of a species of tropical lizards ( Tropidurus hispidus ) has a flattened body relative to the main populations that live in open savanna.

Despite its location in the tropics and the many micro climates found within the country, Guatemala City ’ s elevation and the resulting moderating influence of the higher altitude enable it to enjoy a subtropical highland climate ( Köppen Cwb ), though depending on location, it also borders on a tropical savanna climate ( Köppen Aw ).

The Komodo dragon prefers hot and dry places, and typically lives in dry open grassland, savanna, and tropical forest at low elevations.

All of the empires arose in the area then known as the western Sudan, a vast region of savanna between the Sahara Desert to the north and the tropical rain forests along the Guinean coast to the south.

This climate, the tropical savanna climate exhibits a well marked rainy season and a dry season with a single peak known as the summer maximum due to its distance from the equator.

The single Dry season experienced in this climate, the tropical savanna climate in central Nigeria beginning from December to march, is hot and dry with the Harmattan wind, a continental tropical ( CT ) airmass laden with dust from the Sahara Desert prevailing throughout this period.

The northern coast, on the contrary, has a curious tropical-dry climate, generally referred to as tropical savanna.

climate change from the common subtropical desert found on the south to visible tropicalization effects of the tropical dry climate or tropical savanna.

Simplified climatic map of Africa: Sub-Saharan Africa consists of the Sahel and the Horn of Africa in the north ( yellow ), the tropical savanna s ( light green ) and the tropical rainforest s ( dark green ) of Equatorial Africa, and the arid Kalahari Basin ( yellow ) and the " Mediterranean climate | Mediterranean " south coast ( olive ) of Southern Africa.

The Sahel is the transitional zone between the Sahara and the tropical savanna ( the Sudan region ) and forest-savanna mosaic to the south.

Most of Thailand has a Tropical wet and dry or savanna climate ( Aw ) according to the Köppen climate classification, while the South and the eastern tip of the East have a tropical monsoon climate ( Am ); countrywide, temperatures normally range from an average annual high of to a low of.

The climate is generally tropical with average temperatures ranging from on the coast to about in the northernmost regions, with a dry climate and characteristics of a tropical savanna.

The climate is generally tropical with average temperatures ranging from on the coast to about in the northernmost regions, with a dry climate and characteristics of a tropical savanna.

Falling somewhere in a category between Einstein's theory and sand fleas -- difficult to see but undeniably there, nevertheless -- is the tropical green `` city '' of Islandia, a string of offshore islands that has almost no residents, limited access and an unlimited future.

In West Africa, for example, where meat is a luxury and babies must be weaned early to make room at the breast for later arrivals, a childhood menace is kwashiorkor, or `` Red Johnny '', a growth-stunting protein deficiency ( signs: reddish hair, bloated belly ) that kills more than half its victims, leaves the rest prey for parasites and lingering tropical disease.

An anaconda is a large, nonvenomous snake found in tropical South America.

The Territory of the Ashmore and Cartier Islands is an external territory of Australia consisting of two groups of small low-lying uninhabited tropical islands in the Indian Ocean situated on the edge of the continental shelf north-west of Australia and south of the Indonesian island of Rote.

The Botanical Garden of Acapulco is a tropical garden located on lands owned by the Universidad Loyola del Pacifico.

Although amaranth was cultivated on a large scale in ancient Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru, nowadays it is only cultivated on a small scale there, along with India, China, Nepal, and other tropical countries ; thus, there is potential for further cultivation in those countries, as well as in the U. S. In a 1977 article in Science, amaranth was described as " the crop of the future.

The genus is native to Africa, and is common in the Cape Province, the mountains of tropical Africa, the islands of Africa including Madagascar, and the Arabian Peninsula.

The plant is not frost-tolerant, nor does it do well in tropical environments since they require a dry resting period between leaf growth and flower spike production.

The climate is typical of tropical islands of similar latitude.

The natural vegetation of the Andamans is tropical forest, with mangroves on the coast.

The northern and southern temperate zones have a flora distinct from that of the continent generally, which is tropical.

The climbing plants in the tropical forests are exceedingly luxuriant and the undergrowth or " bush " is extremely dense.

It uses the tropical zodiac, which is aligned to the equinoctial points.

Sole usage of the tropical zodiac is inconsistent with references made, by the same astrologers, to the Age of Aquarius which is dependent on when the vernal point enters the constellation of Aquarius.

So, a taiga or boreal forest is at the mercy of whatever abiotic stress factors may come along, while tropical zones are much less susceptible to such stressors.

The intense vomiting and occasional diarrhea it induces can clear the body of worms and other tropical parasites, and harmala alkaloids themselves have been shown to be anthelmintic Thus, this action is twofold ; a direct action on the parasites by these harmala alkaloids ( particularly harmine in ayahuasca ) works to kill the parasites, and parasites are expelled through the increased intestinal motility that is caused by these alkaloids.

Travelling in remote areas in northern Australia is not advisable during the wet season ( November to April ), as heavy tropical downpours can quickly make dirt roads impassable.

The climate in Brunei is tropical equatorial and humid subtropical at higher altitudes with heavy rainfall.

Bandar Seri Begawan's climate is tropical equatorial with two seasons.

Today, it has 16, 000 animals of 270 species, separated into four sections according to habitat: tropical forest, temperate forest, desert and grassland.

South of the Sahara, two belts of tropical grassland and savanna run east and west across the continent, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ethiopian Highlands.

Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands are a grassland terrestrial biome located in semi-arid to semi-humid climate regions of subtropical and tropical latitudes.

One theory is that the name was derived from the English term " savanna ", a kind of tropical grassland, which was borrowed by the English from Spanish sabana and used in the colonial southeast.

The habitats of tropical lowland evergreen forest and montane evergreen forest have the highest single site species diversity while many habitats including rivers, palm forest, white sand forest, tropical deciduous forest edge, southern temperate forest, southern temperate forest edge, semi-humid / humid montane scrub, and northern temperate grassland have the lowest single species diversity.

* savanna-A flat grassland with scattered trees in tropical or subtropical regions

The southern end of the Kimberley beyond the Dampier Peninsula is flatter with dry tropical grassland and is used for cattle ranching.

The vegetation in Campo Grande and Central Brazil is a tropical savanna called " Cerrado " that varies from pure grassland to a nearly closed canopy of medium height trees overlying grass.

The Double-barred Finch Taeniopygia bichenovii is an estrildid finch found in dry savanna, tropical ( lowland ) dry grassland and shrubland habitats in northern and eastern Australia.

The habitats of the Blue-winged Goose are primarily rivers, freshwater lakes, swamps, freshwater marshes, water storage areas, and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland or grassland.

Roan antelope are found in woodland and grassland savanna, mainly in the tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome, which range in tree density from forest with a grassy understorey ( such as central Zambezian Miombo woodlands ) to grasslands dotted with few trees, where they eat midlength grasses.

The Demoiselle Crane lives in a variety of different environments, including desert areas and numerous types of grasslands ( flooded, mountain, temperate and tropical grassland ) which are often within a few hundred metres of streams or lakes.

Even in less affected regions, rainforest cover was greatly diminished, especially in West Africa where a few refugia were surrounded by tropical grassland.

The terrain is distinguished by steep valleys, and the forest vegetation ranges from grassland to alpine bamboo to tropical rainforest.

Los Llanos (,, " The Plains ") is a vast tropical grassland plain situated to the east of the Andes in Colombia and Venezuela, in northwestern South America.

When not breeding, this bird disperses into wetlands and seasonally flooded tropical grassland.

Sholas are patches of stunted evergreen tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest found in valleys amid rolling grassland in the higher montane regions of South India.

Naturally occurring vegetation in the Highveld consists of different types of well-established grassland depending on the varying amounts of rainfall across the area: subtropical and temperate grassland, with true savannah not dominating the ecosystem until more tropical latitudes.

He has written academic papers and books on chalk grassland, on the vegetation and archaeology of Thailand ( and on the rest of southeast Asia ), on ecology and biogeography ( e. g. his textbook ' Historical Plant Geography '), on fire ecology e. g. on lichens and mosses, on tropical rain forest e. g. and and on the construction of environmental knowledge.

The state lies largely within the tropical zone and has a vegetation of low forest in the southern part and grassland in the northern part.