Sentences with phrase «drier pacific side»
Applying this hypothesis to 122 forest plots catalogued by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama — ranging from the drier Pacific side of the isthmus to the wetter Caribbean side — plant ecologist Bettina Engelbrecht and her colleagues demonstrated that drought controls plant distribution.
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A powerful El Niño is accompanied by drought and forest fire on the western side of the Pacific, and torrential rain and floods on the normally dry eastern Pacific coasts.