Sentences with phrase «rainforest trees growing»

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.

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Imagine the following: you grew up in a rainforest and I brought you a cactus and told you it was a tree.

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

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

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

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).

This was an interval of global «greenhouse» conditions, when much of the world was shrouded in tropical rainforests and palm trees grew as far north as Alaska.

To gain an understanding of how rainforests grow, Farrior and colleagues analyzed decades of tree census data from a 50 - hectare plot on Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal.

The camu fruit is about the size of a large cherry and grows on trees in the Amazon Rainforest.

The Acai (pronounced ah - sigh - ee) palm tree grows naturally in the Brazilian rainforests, and is commonly along the banks of the Amazon River.

Acai berries are 1 - inch (2.5 - cm) round fruits that grow on acai palm trees in the rainforests of Central and South America.

How the island continent's wooded margins came to be dominated by one unique type of tree growing in a variety of forms — the eucalypt, where once the continent was covered in a dense rainforest.

A few weeks later, while volunteering on a botany project in Guatemala's coastal rainforest, he noticed cocoa trees growing everywhere.

Here, a careful observer will notice tiny cactus growing beneath the same towering trees found in temperate rainforests!

These trees are regarded as one of the Island's biological marvels, the only place on the planet where rainforest grows on sand.

The mountainous highlands of Bali are field with streams, rainforests which house prehistoric tree - ferns, wildflowers, creepers, orchids, leeches, butterflies, birds and monkeys, while tall pines and cypress grow high above the mountain villages of Kintamani, Penelokan and Bedugul.

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 consumptTree, 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 consumpttree from a seedling to full - grown state to unfortunate human consumption.

There was a great story in this paper regarding a retired business man who went bankrupt here then flew to Ecuador where he teamed up with an Ecuadorian naturalist to create an ecofriendly lodge that supports teaching the indigenous tribes to grow cocao trees in 5 acre lots, instead of clearcutting the rainforests.

Rainforests tend to reward certain trees which grow and choke out lesser trees and they die and rot where they stand.

Palm oil is one of the worst offenders, grown in countries like Indonesia, rich in tropical rainforests whose trees and soil are very rich in carbon.

If you clear cut the trees, and try later to go back and grow new trees, the system «resists» returning to a rainforest like state.

Because when you chop down the trees in these rainforests growing on peaty soils massive amounts of greenhouse gas emissions stored in the peat get released.

Coffee production is a major cause of rainforest destruction, as trees are cut down to accommodate sun - grown trees and to provide firewood for drying ovens.

the indonesian tropical rainforest is being cleared for palm oil plantations.Hardwood trees which take hundreds of years to grow are being chainsawed down for Diesel fuel Palm Oil which produce Carcenogenic Particles in exhausts.