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.

They are especially numerous in tropical and subtropical regions ( notably Central America, eastern Brazil, the Andes, the Mediterranean, southern Africa, central Asia, and southwestern China ).

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.

Culturally, many urban Australians have had very generalised terms for the otherwise complex range of environments that exist within the inland and tropical regions of the continent.

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

The leaf loss coincides with the dry season in tropical, subtropical and arid regions.

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

A tropical savanna is a grassland biome located in semiarid to semi-humid climate regions of subtropical and tropical latitudes, with average temperatures remain at or above year round and rainfall between and a year.

The Cucurbitaceae are an important family consisting of approximately 125 genera and 960 species, mainly in regions tropical and subtropical.

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.

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.

They are mainly tropical representatives but however there are members of Dioscoreaceae and Nartheciaceae families found in cooler regions of Europe and North America.

The regions with the highest tropical deforestation rate between 2000 and 2005 were Central America — which lost 1. 3 % of its forests each year — and tropical Asia.

DDT was less effective in tropical regions due to the continuous life cycle of mosquitoes and poor infrastructure.

rendering them unbearably hot in tropical regions.

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

In India and other tropical regions, malaria was a persistent problem.

Includes a broad variety of produce-most notably tomatoes, strawberries, mushrooms, sweet maui onions and tropical fruits such as papayas, mangoes, lilikoi ( passionfruit ) and lychee.

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 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.

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.

Dense vegetation ( such as that of tropical rainforests ) and urban habitats are not ideal for the establishment of the human transmission cycle.

Replacing animal fats with tropical vegetable-oils, such as palm oil, simply substitutes one saturated fat for another.

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

Greenpeace has accused several corporations, such as Unilever, Nike ,, KFC, KitKat and McDonald's of having links to the deforestation of the tropical rainforests, resulting in policy changes in several of the companies under criticism.

CO < sub > 2 </ sub > is produced by fossil fuel burning and other activities such as cement production and tropical deforestation.

To construct such a calendar ( in principle ), the average length of the tropical year is divided by the average length of the synodic month, which gives the number of average synodic months in a tropical year as:

The events typically of interest are thunderstorms, squall lines, fronts, precipitation bands in tropical and extratropical cyclones, and topographically generated weather systems such as mountain waves and sea and land breezes.

Hurricanes and tropical storms ( such as Tropical Storm Floyd in 1999 ), tornadoes, and earthquakes are rare.

The region differs from the southern coast by the presence of shrubs, equotorial dry forests, mangrove forests, tropical valleys near rivers such as the Chira and the Tumbes, and is blessed with clear, sunny skies for most of the year.

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.

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.

Alternatively, a customer may offer to pawn an item that is difficult to sell, such as a surfboard in an inland region, or a pair of snowshoes in tropical or sub-tropical regions.

The most popular pets are dogs and cats, but there are also rodent pets, such as gerbils, hamsters, chinchillas, fancy rats, and guinea pigs ; avian pets, such as canaries, parakeets, and parrots ; reptile pets, such as turtles, lizards and snakes ; and aquatic pets, such as tropical fish and frogs.

Sumatra has a huge range of plant and animal species but has lost almost 50 % of its tropical rainforest in the last 35 years, and many species are Critically Endangered such as Sumatran Tiger, Sumatran Rhino and Sumatran Orangutan.

Before the theory of continental drift, glacial deposits in Carboniferous strata in tropical continents areas such as India and South America led to speculation that the Karoo Ice Age glaciation reached into the tropics.

Almost all of these frogs live in wet tropical rainforests and their eggs hatch directly into miniature versions of the adult, passing through the tadpole stage within the egg.

Costa Rica has two seasons, both of which have their own agricultural resources: the tropical wet and dry seasons.

These tropical jungles are similar to coral reefs in that they are highly efficient at conserving and circulating necessary nutrients, which explains their lushness in a nutrient desert.

Simply placing European beef cattle ( Bos Taurus ), highly productive in temperate climates, in Central Brazil, would not produce good results, due to their inability to adapt to a tropical environment.

Duke is relaxing on a tropical island when he discovers that the aliens are having their own " vacation ".

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

The scientists finally use their perfected weather altering device on the island and the once tropical island becomes buried in snow and ice.

The International Tropical Timber Agreement ( ITTA, 1983 ) is an agreement to provide an effective framework for cooperation between tropical timber producers and consumers and to encourage the development of national policies aimed at sustainable utilization and conservation of tropical forests and their genetic resources.

In 2004 they were permanently transformed into their own entity ( keeping the same name ) but having inherited another group of five very remote tropical islands,

Coral reefs also support a huge community of life, including the corals themselves, their symbiotic zooxanthellae, tropical fish and many other organisms.

On the tropical world of Lalonde, the newest colony in the Confederation, a group of Involuntary Transportees ' Ivets ' from Earth ( it becomes clear that the basic sentence for basically every convicted person on Earth is transportation, as its population is far too large to sustain prisoners ) is made to work while voluntary colonists set out to make a new life for themselves-some eager, some forced to come along with their families.

Where their blood touched the ground, the vine of the tropical orchid grew.

What follows is a list of the twelve signs of the modern zodiac ( with the ecliptic longitudes of their first points ), where 0 ° Aries is understood as the vernal equinox, with their Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, and Babylonian names ( but note that the Sanskrit and the Babylonian name equivalents denote the constellations only, not the tropical zodiac signs ).

This allows them to be in the water with most of their body submerged in the waters and mud of tropical rivers to stay cool and prevent sunburn.

These tropical perennials are grown for their ornamental foliage. They are mostly natives of tropical America.

The musk deer of Asia and water chevrotain ( or mouse deer ) of tropical African and Asian forests are not usually regarded as true deer and form their own families, Moschidae and Tragulidae, respectively.

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.

They prefer foods like shrimp pellets or various vegetables, but will also eat tropical fish food, regular fish food, algae wafers, and even small fish that can be captured by their claws.

Using the Dvorak technique, infrared satellite imagery can used to determine the temperature difference between the eye and the cloud top temperature of the central dense overcast of mature tropical cyclones to estimate their maximum sustained winds and their minimum central pressures.

The different groups of begonias have different cultural requirements but most species come from tropical regions and therefore they and their hybrids require warm temperatures.