tropical forest
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftropicalandforest
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tropical
adjective
uk/ˈtrɒp.ɪ.kəl/us/ˈtrɑː.pɪ.kəl/
geography,environment
from or relating to the area between the ...
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forest
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈfɒr.ɪst/us/ˈfɔːr.ɪst/
a large area of land covered with trees and plants, usually larger than a wood, or the trees and ...
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(Definition oftropicalandforestfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Careful observation and description oftropicalforestchange provides the material from which specific hypotheses must be formulated and examined.
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Germination and seedling growth of selected drytropicalforestspecies.
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A comparison of species growth rates from four moisttropicalforestregions using increment-size ordination.
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Contrasting leaf phenotypes control seasonal variation in water loss in atropicalforestshrub.
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Throughfall and stemflow in mature and year-old wettropicalforest.
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Experimental test in lowlandtropicalforestshows top-down effects through four trophic levels.
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Factors affecting post-dispersal seed survival in atropicalforest.
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The picture it draws is then used as a guide to practical policy proposals fortropicalforestmanagement.
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In addition, the 'wealth effect' of transfers counteracts the 'freeing-up effect', which implies that per unit of subsidy fewer hectares oftropicalforestare protected.
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Microbial biomass acts as a source of plant nutrients in drytropicalforestand savanna.
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Tropicalforestfragmentation and isolation promote asynchrony among populations of a frugivorous rodent.
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This would have been a period of forest clearance, as people carved dispersed homesteads out of thetropicalforest.
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Due to human land-use in many areas, the type of disturbance characterizingtropicalforestlandscapes is more intense now than it has been for millennia.
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Coadapted competitors: the flowering seasons of hummingbird-pollinated plants in atropicalforest.
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The demographics o f resprouting in tree and shrub species of a moisttropicalforest.
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One possible extension might be to study how poaching and forest degradation impact eco-tourism potential alongtropicalforestmargins.
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Quantifying the deciduousness oftropicalforestcanopies under varying climates.
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Most studies oftropicalforestdynamics, however, focus on single study sites, and in many cases, only a handful of species present at a site.
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