Sentences with phrase «of rainforest trees»

«We are finding that a lot of rainforest trees have been able to survive the cooling and warming cycles during the last couple of millions of years because of this ability to resprout.»

The global rise in temperatures spurred by the intensifying impact of climate change may be stunting the growth of rainforest trees — disrupting their ability to store carbon dioxide — according to a new study.

These gardens additionally house a Bush Chapel surrounded by a canopy of rainforest trees that provides the ideal setting for weddings and other such ceremonies.

Situated only meters to the magnificent golden sands of Mission Beach, from which you can view Dunk Island, and backing onto natural untouched wet tropical rainforest, these 6 individual and luxurious self contained Mission Beach cottages are nestled under a canopy of rainforest trees, while enjoying the cool breezes from the Coral Sea.

This unique Port Douglas SUP board tour has you gliding gently on your stand up paddle board on the crystal waters of the Mossman River as the boughs of rainforest trees hang like filigree décor above you.

Zipline Tours — Visitors can fly through the canopy of the rainforest trees as the tropical jungle floor zips by below.

Today the Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) has a regeneration experiment that covers 500 hectares and — aside from the years of Japanese occupation during World War II — they have a largely unbroken record of the number, diversity and size of rainforest trees growing here.

Kids 4 - 10 find out how people use parts of rainforest trees to make chewing gum and rubber.

Cacao farms look after biodiversity, growing cacao beans under the shade of rainforest trees alongside crops like avocados, pineapples, bananas and coffee.

From New Reality Co comes Tree, a VR experience shown at VRLA, the Tribeca Film Festival, and Cannes that uses sight, sound, touch and smell to explore the lifecycle of a rainforest tree from a seedling to full - grown state to unfortunate human consumption.

The idea, says the artist, is to «present a series of rainforest tree stumps as a «ghost forest» — using the negative space created by the missing trunks as a metaphor for climate change, the absence representing the removal of the world's «lungs» through continued deforestation»

Not exact matches

Living in rainforests in Central and South America, sloths spend most of their time hanging upside down in the trees, rarely coming down to the ground.

It was only two years ago that my son Jack and I had an opportunity to fish on Princess Royal Island, and witness the wonder of 300 - foot trees in one of the world's last remaining coastal rainforests, shrouded in primeval mists.

The men planned to meet in the desolate rainforest of Central Africa, amid towering 150 - foot trees and swarms of small butterflies clustered like shark teeth on the seemingly endless red clay road.

Maybe you think environmentalist are those tree - hugging, liberal lunatics who fight for the rights of rainforest birds and Pacific salmon while ignoring the humans and unborn babies.

Because avocado trees are tropical rainforest trees, they are active year - round — and that means cultural management of avocado groves is necessary throughout the year.

Acai is a grape - like fruit that comes from acai palm trees that are native to the rainforests of South America.

Packaged in recyclable material (no blister packs) and made with chicle, a tree sap harvested sustainably from the rainforest of Central America.

Yet in response to my post regarding the weakening of Criterion 2.8 for coffee farms, a Rainforest Alliance representative stated: «The current criterion 2.8 has not been implemented fully by farms and hence has not been effective in terms of delivering the objective of providing an agroforestry framework that balances both ecosystem services of trees with profitable production scenarios.»

The Rainforest Alliance's team of carbon auditors within RA - Cert recently travelled to Baguia to conduct the Gold Standard Initial Certification audit of the WithOneSeed's tree planting (reforestation) project.

A Rainforest Alliance brochure states that «Rainforest Alliance certification requires reforestation with native tree species, the conservation of forestland and a diversity of tree species on farms.»

While our organization has branched out (pun intended) since its founding 30 years ago to protect temperate forests (such as those in the Appalachian mountains), and tropical forests in Africa and Asia, our first efforts were focused on the rainforests of Latin America, working with farmers and foresters there to improve their lives and livelihoods so they wouldn't have to clear trees to plant crops or sell timber.

Açai — pronounced «ah - sigh - ee» — berries are harvested from açai palm trees, which are native to the rainforests of South America.

Camu Camu is a small, bushy riverside tree growing in the Amazon rainforest of Peru and Brazil.

All wood used in To'ak's posh packaging is directly replenished through the planting of native hardwood trees in partnership with the Ecuador - based rainforest conservation foundation Third Millennium Alliance (TMA).

The first goal of this environmental movement is to restore trees in the Atlantic Rainforest, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy.

They measured the growth and photosynthesis rates of trees at 13 rainforest plots across Brazil, Peru and Bolivia, comparing plots that were affected by the strong drought of 2010 with unaffected plots.

For the first time, scientists have identified the ecological trigger that brings about the death of tropical rainforest trees during prolonged water shortages.

A control plot in a study of trees in the Amazon rainforest, where scientists from the University of Edinburgh have found that the tallest trees are likely to die of thirst, rather than starvation, in a drought.

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

A total of 300 different tree species grow in this 50 ha lowland rainforest.

«Tallest trees could die of thirst in rainforest droughts, study finds.»

The census takers, in what is by far the largest effort of its kind, identified and plotted the locations of trees in six tropical rainforests.

Nineteenth century naturalist and adventurer Alfred Russel Wallace noted how hard it is to find two trees of the same species in a tropical rainforest.

Björn Lardner of the Field Museum in Chicago and Maklarin bin Lakim of Sabah Parks, a state park agency in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, spent more than 100 nights in the Bornean rainforest, locating calling males of the tree hole frog (Metaphrynella sundana).

Botanist Richard Condit of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution in Balboa, Panama, and colleagues systematically worked through six plots of 25 or 50 hectares each — for a grand total of about 715 soccer fields worth of terrain — in rainforests of Asia and Central America, keying out every tree with a trunk thicker than 1 centimeter.

The new study focused on two areas that are now losing trees: western North America, which is suffering from drought, heat and beetle infestations that span from the southwestern U.S. to Alaska, and the Amazon rainforest, which has been subject to decades of intense human development.

GAZE out over a tropical rainforest and the scene looks idyllic — a kaleidoscope of trees festooned with colourful vines, orchids, ferns and lichens.

Researcher Shannon Young, part of a team assessing the impacts of pollution on the rainforest canopy, measures treetop - dwelling plants called epiphytes in a Lecythis ampla tree in Costa Rica.

During the five - year study, which was the first to examine the effects of projected pollution levels on the rainforest canopy, local field assistants climbed each of 10 trees at La Selva every couple of weeks — five each from two tree species, Virola koschnyi and Lecythis ampla.

For the past five years, Cardelùs and Woods have added pollution to a handful of trees in the rainforest surrounding the La Selva station.

In the Australian rainforest grows the monkey's earrings tree, so called because of its decorative dangle of seeds.

The researchers found that in hot years, trees in a Costa Rican rainforest grow less, and the tropics worldwide release lots of carbon dioxide (CO2).

As one part of the project, Julieta Benitez - Malvido of the National Autonomous University in Mexico City examined how the square shape of the rainforest fragments influenced the reproduction of shade - loving trees.

Extensive harvesting of Brazil nuts has led to a dearth of young trees, threatening the future of this rainforest crop.

One genus, Dendrolagus, returned to the rainforest some 5 million years ago, branching into the nine species of tree kangaroo known today.

Species: Chrysopelea paradisi Habitat: tropical rainforests of South Asia, gliding up to 100 metres from the tops of trees

«In the long term, such wide - ranging disruptions could pose an important threat to tropical biodiversity, given the myriad ecological linkages among rainforest trees and their many dependent animal, plant and fungal species,» the researchers conclude in their paper presenting the findings, published online November 27 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

Previously, when estimating the carbon emissions from logged tropical rainforests, researchers have assumed that when live trees are cut down and moved out of the forest, the amount of dead wood is reduced proportionately.

Test satellites launched in April and November demonstrated that the company's engineers can accurately position the orbiters and capture a continuous stream of images with a resolution of three to five meters — fine enough to distinguish individual trees in a rainforest, but not sharp enough to identify a person tending his garden.