Sentences with phrase «from lowland»

The researchers collected four species of adult female fig wasps from the lowland tropical forests of Singapore to test their tolerance to gradually increased temperatures.

A Chinese water dragon that comes from the lowland tropical forests of China, Thailand and Cambodia will need 80 % humidity, while a Leopard Gecko that lives in the arid deserts of Afghanistan will need a much drier environment.

PAID CONTENT — Oct 31 — eBuddy (35 million users), an Amsterdam - based online IM startup, has received about $ 6.3 million in a first round of capital from Lowland Capital Partners.

Although not the first animal to be named after the British national treasure, the butterfly is so rare that it is known only from lowland tropical forests of the upper Amazon basin in Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil.

Some relatively wealthy farmers have bought gasoline pumps to bring water up from lowland rivers.

The data from the lowland rainforest of Panama and the tree coordinates from a mountainous rainforest of Sri Lanka form a unique resource.

The pesticide - laden air from the lowlands cools as it hits the mountains and rises.

Over millennia, bristlecone pine trees have moved from the lowlands of the Great Basin up to the current tree line.

Because the environment that matters to Apodanthaceae is the host, not anything outside it, these plants occur from the lowlands to 2500 m altitude and from deserts to Amazonian forest.

Travelling from the Lowlands to the Highlands, this adventure starts in Scotland's largest city, Glasgow.

You will leave the crowds and noise behind and trek from the Lowlands, past lochs and through glens into the breathtaking and barren landscape of the Scottish Highlands.

The whole 12 months intended for the apocalypse «survival» he spent joyfully frolicking all around the country — from lowlands to highlands.

The population of Papua - New Guinea ranges from 1 to 20 people per square kilometer from the lowlands to the highlands.

These grarled beauties have reacted to a gradually changing climate by slowly advancing across the landscape, moving from the lowlands of the Great Basin up to the current tree line where they are now.

Not exact matches

He also said that the tailings, which are moved from the mine in a high - lying area by a river system to a cordoned - off area in lowlands, were benign.

Co-operation from First Nations is essential for both companies, and for anyone else wanting to do business in the remote James Bay lowlands.

The province wants to diversify its economy and envisions tens of thousands of jobs from many mines in the James Bay lowlands.

The very fact that six historically influential ideas are presented in terms of development, with their later formulations on an altitude immeasurably higher than the lowlands from which they came, may produce the illusion of constant ascent, as though being posterior in time always meant being superior in quality.

Agave grown in the highlands benefits from richer soil, greater rainfall and cleaner water than plants grown in the lowlands, producing a higher quality of sugar that in turn creates a better tequila.

The objective of this book is to review the research that has been conducted on nutrient management of lowland rice in Laos from 1991 to 2000 and to present an integrated and sustainable nutrient management approach that is relevant to Lao farmers.

In the appendixes at the end, we have provided (1) a list of Lao - IRRI publications relating to rainfed lowland rice, which are available from IRRI, and (2) a list of soil fertility experiments that have been conducted from 1991 to 2000.

Auchentoshan American Oak is the latest release from the single malt Lowland Scotch whisky distillery known for its triple distillation process.

In Glasgow's own language, a harsh metropolitan corruption of lowland Scots studded with the shorthand of violence, getting the message is a procedure that may vary from a swift thumping to some impromptu facial surgery with a razor or a broken glass.

This is the Italian term for the traditional twice - yearly migration of sheep and cows from the highlands to the lowlands, and vice versa.

But my husband comes from the rolling hills of lowland Scotland, where the purple heather lights up the hillsides on a bright sunny day and the clear water of the River Tweed winds its way through the verdant valleys.

An interdisciplinary team of scientists from the University of Göttingen, the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig and Bogor Agricultural University in Indonesia has now performed a complete and multidisciplinary assessment of all ecosystem functions in oil palm plantations as compared to lowland forests.

This scenic mountain and the more rounded Beluga Mountain to the northwest rise up steeply from the adjacent lowlands of the Susitna basin where the Yentna and Susitna rivers meander on their way to the Inlet.

Biologist Steven Whitfield of Florida International University in Miami and his colleagues collected long - term data from the La Selva Biological Station in the Caribbean lowlands of Costa Rica.

The 680 - mile - long Serra do Espinhaço mountain range rises from the Brazilian lowlands like the fossilized backbone of a fallen dinosaur.

Reese - Taylor combed through hundreds of published inscriptions and royal portraits housed at university libraries in Canada and the U.S., looking for imagery of other warrior queens from the Maya lowlands around Naachtun.

A newly discovered glass frog from Ecuador's Amazon lowlands is giving researchers a window into its heart.

In the Polish lowlands both species have met less than 14,000 years ago; from an evolutionary point of view a very young contact.

I travelled with representatives from a local family planning group across the highland plateau to the Sidamo region, in the fertile and densely populated southern lowlands.

They range from steamy lowland jungles, swamps, and floodplains to cloud forests, alpine grasslands, and glaciers capping mountains more than 16,000 feet high.

This tolerant behavior started to make sense once Sheehy and geneticist Brenda Bradley of the Max Planck Institute in Germany analyzed DNA from 12 lowland gorilla groups.

More research will need to be done comparing genomes from closely related species inhabiting high altitudes and lowland environments to further explore the genetic foundation of these adaptations.

Genetic material obtained from two pieces of parchment, one from the 1600s and one from the 1700s, show that sheep provided the paper's starting material and that over that century, a big shift occurred in the breed of sheep used in that part of the United Kingdom — from a scrappier, highlands, black - faced variety to a meatier, lowland breed.

The reverse — the spread of human diseases to animals — can be equally deadly: At least 5,000 western lowland gorillas have died from the Ebola virus.

A photo taken from the air shows the dark green of forests diminish along the slope to the lowlands; the valley has clusters of deep forest green among the broad, pale, geometric shapes of cultivated land.

In addition, they sequenced DNA from three other gorillas, including one eastern lowland gorilla, a rare species estimated at only 20,000 individuals.

Both new frog species have been retrieved from logged lowland rainforests.

Most scientists have long assumed that European potatoes, the foundation for all modern cultivated potatoes, come from the Chilean variety, because Chilean lowlands resemble Europe's environment most closely.

Raised lowland bogs contain the mummified remains of everything from plants, pollens and airborne pollutants to archaeological remains and human bodies, all filed in layers, by date.

Pollutants that gather from India and China in the lowlands around the mountains can be boosted as high as 18 kilometers, reaching the stratosphere — the atmospheric layer directly above the troposphere that contains most of Earth's ozone.

The samples from Indonesia were taken within the framework of the Collaborative Research Centre «Ecological and Socio - economic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems» (University of Göttingen).

The goal is to do a complete accounting of the movement of water from the time it hit the surface of a plant and passed through moss and soil, until it flowed out of the basin and into the network of high forest streams on its way to the lowlands.

For example, in a 2014 study of DNA from two pieces of parchment from the 1600s and 1700s, Collins's team showed that a big shift occurred in the breed of sheep raised in the midlands of the United Kingdom, from a scrappier, black - faced, highland variety to a meatier, lowland breed.

The research team analyzed DNA in a blood sample of a female Western lowland gorilla from Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo.

While miners in the Amazonian lowlands separate gold flecks from river sediment, those in La Rinconada drill ore from the mountains, then use huge grindstones to crush it with mercury.

Iodine Source: Seaweed, milk from cows grazed on iodine - rich coastal soil Effects of deficiency: Blindness, mental impairment, goiter Who's at risk: People living in mountainous areas (the Rockies, the Alps, and the Andes), where iodine has been washed away by glaciation and flooding, or in lowland regions far from the oceans (Central Africa and Eastern Europe) Fortification options: Salt Estimated millions of people affected: 740