equatorial forest

collocation in English

meaningsofequatorialandforest

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equatorial
adjective
uk
/ˌek.wəˈtɔː.ri.əl/us
/ˌek.wəˈtɔːr.i.əl/
near the equator, or typical of places near ...
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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 ofequatorialandforestfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In this paper we introduce a new method of designing monkey censuses in large areas ofequatorialforest.
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Between 2001 and 2004 soya destroyed more than 1.2 million hectares of tropical andequatorialforest.
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It is true to say that there are millions of unique species in theequatorialforest.
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It is however probably absent from theequatorialforestbelt, except as a vagrant.
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It lies between theequatorialforestand the savannah and its main resource is coffee.
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The humid andequatorialforestleft their indelible marks on her paintings.
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The center is a quiet area in theequatorialforest.
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However, wildlife surveys in the equatorial forests are expensive because of the great distances to be traversed.
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In return, that would also require a commitment to respect carbon deposits such as the equatorial forests.
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Forest elephants mainly live in equatorial forests, but will enter gallery forests and ecotones between forests and savannahs.
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Tropical forestry is a separate branch of forestry which deals mainly with equatorial forests that yield woods such as teak and mahogany.
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