In temperate regions, breeding is mostly seasonal, usually in the spring, and is triggered by increasing day length, rising temperatures or rainfall.

Many other genera, both perennials and bulbs, are grown in gardens in tropical and temperate regions ( e. g. Watsonia, Crocus, Dietes, Tritonia, Hesperantha and Neomarica ).

Members of the family are natives of temperate to tropical regions of the Old World, with 15 genera and 780 species.

Members of the subfamily are found worldwide, in temperate, subtropical and tropical regions.

The subfamily includes 59 genera and approximately 800 species from temperate and tropical regions worldwide.

The family has a worldwide distribution, and is most common in the arid and semi-arid regions of subtropical and lower temperate latitudes.

Amaranth greens, also called Chau lai ( Hindi ) and Chu or Chua ( Kumauni ), Chinese spinach, hinn choy or yin tsoi (); callaloo, dhantinasoppu ( ದ ಂ ಟ ಿ ನ ಸ ೊ ಪ ್ ಪ ು) / harive ( ಹರ ಿ ವ ೆ) ( Kannada ); త ో టక ూ ర ( Telugu ); Rajgira ( र ा जग ी र ा) ( Marathi ); ம ு ள ை க ் க ீ ர ை ( Tamil ); cheera ച ീ ര ( Malayalam ); bayam ( Indonesian ); phak khom ผ ั กโขม ( Thai ); tampala, or quelite ( Oriya ); Khada Saga, are a common leaf vegetable throughout the tropics and in many warm temperate regions.

The family is cosmopolitan but is concentrated in the northern temperate regions and reaches maximal diversity around the Mediterranean area.

A puzzling aspect of BTV is its survival between midge seasons in temperate regions.

" In addition to the lack of evidence, scientists cite the fact that Bigfoot is alleged to live in regions unusual for a large, nonhuman primate, i. e., temperate latitudes in the northern hemisphere ; all recognized nonhuman apes are found in the tropics of Africa and Asia ( although some smaller primates, such as Japanese macaques, are found in Asia up to the latitude of Northern California, and can cope with air temperatures to-20 ° C (- 4 ° F )).

This order mostly belongs to tropical areas, with limited presence in subtropic and temperate regions.

Calves suffer from few congenital abnormalities but the Akabane virus is widely distributed in temperate to tropical regions of the world.

Datura's precise and natural distribution is uncertain, owing to its extensive cultivation and naturalization throughout the temperate and tropical regions of the globe.

Areas of distribution of families vary largely-while some are restricted to tropics, others exist mainly in Arctic or temperate regions.

Temperate needleleaf forests mostly occupy the higher latitude regions of the northern hemisphere, as well as high altitude zones and some warm temperate areas, especially on nutrient-poor or otherwise unfavourable soils.

They can be found in most unpolluted fresh-water ponds, lakes, and streams in the temperate and tropical regions and can be found by gently sweeping a collecting net through weedy areas.

He further predicted, the average temperature in temperate regions would increase by as much as 8 ° C and by up to 5 ° C in the tropics, leaving much of the world's land uninhabitable and unsuitable for farming, with northerly migrations and new cities created in the Arctic.

The plants are mostly shrubs and trees ; most of its families have a cosmopolitan distribution in the tropics and subtropics with limited expansion into temperate regions.

Due to their location in the tropics, this elevation is high enough to reach the temperate climate line in the tropics thereby giving the highlands, mountains and the plateau regions standing above this height, a cool mountain climate.

Its most prominent climatic features are its two large polar regions, two relatively narrow temperate zones, and a wide equatorial tropical to subtropical region.

Olives are now cultivated in many regions of the world with Mediterranean climates, such as South Africa, Chile, Peru, Australia, and California and in areas with temperate climates such as New Zealand, under irrigation in the Cuyo region in Argentina which has a desert climate.

Among extant penguins, larger penguins inhabit colder regions, while smaller penguins are generally found in temperate or even tropical climates ( see also Bergmann's Rule ).

The pear is native to coastal and mildly temperate regions of the Old World, from western Europe and north Africa east right across Asia.

It contains plants and trees from all the temperate regions of the world.

The southern and by far most populous regions of Scandinavia have a temperate climate.

The group includes eight genera and about 85 species distributed in the temperate zones of Europe and Asia, Malaysia, India, Madagascar, Africa and the Pacific, from Australia and New Zealand to South America.

Outbreaks of another mosquito-transmitted disease, Australian encephalitis ( Murray Valley encephalitis-MVE ), occur in temperate south-east Australia after heavy rainfall and flooding, which are associated with La Niña events.

However, Baltica ( Northern Europe and Russia ) and Laurentia ( eastern North America and Greenland ) remained in the tropical zone, while China and Australia lay in waters which were at least temperate.

Because the temperature lag is shorter in the oceanic temperate southern hemisphere most countries in this region, especially Australia and New Zealand, use the meteorological definition with summer starting on December 1 and ending on the last day of February.

The family includes about 50 genera and 550 species, with a pantropical distribution ; one genus ( Toona ) extends north into temperate China and south into southeast Australia, and another ( Melia ) nearly as far north.

Some better known species that represent the diversity of the genus include the Common Fig which is a small temperate deciduous tree whose fingered fig leaf is well known in art and iconography ; the Weeping Fig ( F. benjamina ) a hemi-epiphyte with thin tough leaves on pendulous stalks adapted to its rain forest habitat ; the rough-leaved sandpaper figs from Australia ; the Creeping Fig ( F. pumila ), a vine whose small, hard leaves form a dense carpet of foliage over rocks or garden walls.

Australia also has large fruit growing regions in most states for tropical fruits in the north, stone fruits and temperate fruits in the south which has a mediterranean or temperate climate.

Areas in southern Australia which has a mediterranean or temperate climate allows cooking for richer hot dishes, or slow cooked dishes in the winter which is not always desirable in the warmer regions further north at the same time of year, as well as experiencing greater seasonal change in local produce.

Species that breed in subtropical or temperate areas of Europe, Asia and Australia are all migrants.

T. orientalis is widespread in eastern & northern Australia, temperate & tropical Asia, New Zealand.

About 65 million years ago, Antarctica ( then connected to Australia ) still had a tropical to subtropical climate, complete with marsupial fauna and an extensive temperate rainforest.

Using molecular analyses and corroborated by fossils, it has been possible to demonstrate that perching birds evolved first in the region of Australia or the adjacent Antarctic ( which at that time lay somewhat further north and had a temperate climate ).

The Murray Scrub and the Dome Mountain Forest contain significant areas of subtropical and temperate rainforest and are listed as part of the World Heritage Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves of Australia.

Located within the large area of Southeast Australia temperate savanna grasslands the park incorporates the most spectactular part of the Warrumbungle mountains, a region of past volcanic activity with unusual lava formations.

It is the largest undisturbed area of temperate rainforest in Australia.

This region is biogeographically interesting as the meeting point between the subtropical flora of the north of Australia and the cool temperate and arid zone floras of the south and west.

The park ’ s lush rainforests include one of the largest upland subtropical rainforest remnants in the world and the most northern Antarctic Beech cool temperate rainforests in Australia.

Drosera arcturi from Australia ( including Tasmania ) and New Zealand is another temperate species that dies back to a horn-shaped hibernaculum.

Shrews are distributed almost worldwide: of the major tropical and temperate land masses, only New Guinea, Australia, and New Zealand do not have native shrews at all ; in South America, shrews are relatively recent immigrants and are present only in the northern Andes.

They range worldwide, even in temperate to cold regions like Northern Ontario and above timberline in Wyoming's Rocky Mountains in the United States and the Jenolan Caves of Australia, but have their most dense and diverse populations in the tropics and subtropics, where they spread even to islandic territories like the Canary Islands, where have been found around 25 endemic species.

Elaeagnaceae, the oleaster family, is a plant family of the order Rosales comprising small trees and shrubs, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, south into tropical Asia and Australia.

* Eastern Australia temperate forests