On clear nights, even in tropical areas, sky facing radiators can cool below freezing.

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.

Burundi in general has a tropical highland climate, with a considerable daily temperature range in many areas.

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

In tropical regions, such as their native habitats, breeding occurs throughout the year, but in subtropical areas, breeding occurs only during warmer periods that coincide with the onset of the wet season.

Capybaras are semiaquatic mammals found throughout almost all countries of South America ( except Chile ) in densely forested areas near bodies of water, such as lakes, rivers, swamps, ponds and marshes, as well as flooded savannah and along rivers in tropical forest.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change deforestation, mainly in tropical areas, could account for up to one-third of total anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions.

Since the tropical rainforests are the most diverse ecosystems on Earth and about 80 % of the world's known biodiversity could be found in tropical rainforests, removal or destruction of significant areas of forest cover has resulted in a degraded environment with reduced biodiversity.

With the tropical climate and unstable land forms, coupled with deforestation, unplanned growth proliferation, non-engineered constructions which make the disaster-prone areas more vulnerable, tardy communication, poor or no budgetary allocation for disaster prevention, developing countries suffer more or less chronically by natural disasters.

Before DDT, malaria was successfully eradicated or curtailed in several tropical areas by removing or poisoning mosquito breeding grounds and larva habitats, for example by filling or applying oil to standing water.

There are also areas of remnant tropical hardwood forest at the sites of the plantation-era villages, as well as Casuarina equisetifolia ( Iron Wood Pines ) woodlands.

They fast during their months-long migration from arctic feeding areas to tropical breeding / nursing areas and back.

Forests sometimes contain many tree species only within a small area ( as in tropical rain and temperate deciduous forests ), or relatively few species over large areas ( e. g., taiga and arid montane coniferous forests ).

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.

In tropical areas of the world, a common cause of secondary lymphedema is filariasis, a parasitic infection.

Bauxites are the chief aluminium ore, and are a heterogenous mixture of the hydroxide minerals diaspore, gibbsite, and bohmite ; they form in areas with a very high rate of chemical weathering ( mainly tropical conditions ).

* Himantandraceae ( two species of trees and shrubs, found in tropical areas in Southeast Asia and Australia )

Garden parsley is a bright green, hairless, biennial, herbaceous plant in temperate climates, or an annual herb in subtropical and tropical areas.

The rainforest is subject to deforestation as a result of growing commercial demand for tropical timber ; forest clearance, especially in coastal areas, for plantations ; pollution from mining projects.

There are protected areas in Tumbes and Piura filled with tropical canelo forests and tropical dry forests such as Caza de Coto and Cerros de Amotape, both extending into southern Ecuador.

The areas of Eastern Lambayeque also have tropical dry forests which are found in the Chaparri and Chongoyape provinces.

However, due to release of aquarium specimens and the widespread use of species of the genera Poecilia and Gambusia for mosquito control, poeciliids can today be found in all tropical and subtropical areas of the world.

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.

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.

In fact, in tropical regions both Crux ( low in the south ) and Ursa Major ( low in the north ) can be seen in the sky from April to June.

The cane toad has a high tolerance to water loss — one study showed some can withstand a 52. 6 % loss of body water, allowing them to survive outside tropical environments.

At Taï, it can be found in the last remaining tropical rainforest in Côte d ' Ivoire.

This can be an advantage in excessively leached tropical rain forest soils.

These 26 major types can be reclassified into 6 broader categories: temperate needleleaf ; temperate broadleaf and mixed ; tropical moist ; tropical dry ; sparse trees and parkland ; and forest plantations.

Garden design can include different themes such as perennial, butterfly, wildlife, Japanese, water, tropical, or shade gardens.

Information for offshore regions and tropical waters is more scarce, but widespread, if not frequent, sightings indicate the killer whale can survive in most water temperatures.

The best-known types of reefs are tropical coral reefs which exist in most tropical waters ; however, reefs can also exist in cold water.

With the Intertropical Convergence Zone ( ITCZ ) swinging northward over West Africa from the Southern Hemisphere in April, heavy showers coming from pre-monsoonal convective clouds mainly in the form of squall lines also known as the north easterlies formed mainly as a result of the interactions of the two dominant airmasses in Nigeria known as the Maritime tropical ( south westerlies ) and the Continental tropical ( north easterlies ), begins in central Nigeria while the Monsoons from the south atlantic ocean arrives in central Nigeria in July bringing with it high humidity, heavy cloud cover and heavy rainfall which can be daily occurrence lasting till September when the monsoons gradually begin retreating southward to the southern part of Nigeria. Rainfall totals in central Nigeria varies from in the lowlands of the river Niger Benue trough to over along the south western escarpment of the Jos Plateau.

But afternoons in the rainy season can be hot and humid, a feature of tropical climates.

Even though ozone in the lower tropical stratosphere is produced at a very slow rate, the lifting circulation is so slow that ozone can build up to relatively high levels by the time it reaches.

Piper species have a pantropical distribution, and are most commonly found in the understory of lowland tropical rainforests, but can also occur in clearings and in higher elevation life zones such as cloud forests ; one species ( Japanese Pepper, P. kadsura, from southern Japan and southernmost Korea ) is subtropical and can tolerate light winter frost.

Summer is not completely devoid of rain with sporadic rainfall in the form of short-lived thunderstorms, weak cold fronts and on very rare occasions decaying tropical cyclones from Western Australia's north-west which can bring significant falls.

The climate of Sri Lanka can be described as tropical and warm.

In tropical regions, other cacti grow as forest climbers and epiphytes ( plants that grow on trees ).

In tropical regions, some cacti grow as forest climbers and epiphytes.

In temperate and tropical regions, they are fast-growing softwoods that will grow in relatively dense stands, their acidic decaying needles inhibiting the sprouting of competing hardwoods.

There are alpine species with small flowers and small leaves, and tropical species such as section Vireya that often grow as epiphytes.

Like other ericaceous plants, most rhododendrons prefer acid soils with a pH of roughly 4. 5-5. 5 ; some tropical Vireyas and a few other rhododendron species grow as epiphytes and require a planting mix similar to orchids.

He reasoned that a fringing coral reef surrounding a volcanic island in the tropical sea will grow upwards as the island subsides ( sinks ), becoming an " almost atoll ", or barrier reef island, as typified by an island such as Aitutaki in the Cook Islands, Bora Bora and others in the Society Islands.

A vast amount of labor was needed to create and sustain plantations that required intensive labor to grow, harvest, and process prized tropical crops.

It allows the plant to grow in tropical and subtropical regions.

Bananas, mangoes, coconut, vanilla, and other tropical plants grow on the coasts, and the eucalyptus tree, brought from Australia, is widespread.

The diversity of its ecology and climate makes it possible to grow temperate crops such as apples, pears, plums, grape and citrus fruits and tropical products such as mangoes and litchi, as well as a wide variety of other crops including coffee, cloves, sisal, maize, tubers and various spices.

Peaches grow very well in a fairly limited range, since they have a chilling requirement that low altitude tropical areas cannot satisfy.

In tropical and equatorial latitudes, such as Ecuador, Colombia, Ethiopia, India and Nepal, they grow at higher altitudes that can satisfy the chilling requirement.

Because of the cold-weather requirement, none of the Prunus family can grow in tropical climates.

They do not thrive in the summer heat of warmer temperate and lowland tropical climates, but do grow well in cooler, high altitude, tropical areas.

Cannas grow from perennial rhizomes but are frequently grown as annuals in temperate zones for an exotic or tropical look in the garden.

There are some tropical vines that develop skototropism, and grow away from the light, a type of negative phototropism.

It is widely naturalized in tropical regions around the world and is cultivated for its edible seeds, which grow in pods.

Healthy tropical coral reefs grow horizontally from 1 to 3 cm ( 0. 39 to 1. 2 in ) per year, and grow vertically anywhere from 1 to 25 cm ( 0. 39 to 9. 8 in ) per year ; however, they grow only at depths shallower than 150 m ( 490 ft ) because of their need for sunlight, and cannot grow above sea level.

Because of their tropical origin, most of these crops were difficult to grow except in the far north of New Zealand.