Sentences with phrase «tropical land areas»

ENSO has the strongest influence on this and the largest variability in biomass occurs in tropical land areas.

This is largely because warm, dry conditions on tropical land areas weaken the carbon sink.

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All fields of knowledge, from archeology to zoology, can claim distinguished contributors from many lands, and all studies have important applications to world understanding, whether it be an inquiry into the archeology of the Middle East, once the cradle of civilization and now a focus of cultural and industrial renaissance, or an analysis of the zoology of malarial infection, which has sapped the energies and influenced the destinies of millions in tropical areas around the globe.

But changes in land use — draining the water to plant acres of crops that demand drier soil, a common practice in tropical regions, or building a road through an area — can dry out the peat.

Draining the land plus «slash and burn» techniques to clear areas for agriculture are the main reasons that tropical peatlands are catching fire, says Alexander Cobb, an environmental scientist at the Singapore - MIT Alliance for Research and Technology.

In 2010, for example, one - fifth of the global land area experienced extreme maximum temperature anomalies that coincided with heat waves and droughts in Canada, the United States, Northern Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China and unprecedented droughts in tropical rainforests.

Tropical and subtropical forests, with the greatest area of forested land, are home to 1.3 trillion trees, or 43 % of the total.

Small Hope Bay Lodge offers several island and nature tours, providing visitors an opportunity to explore the diverse environment of this Bahamian out island, the fifth largest, and the least developed land mass in the Caribbean and tropical Atlantic area.

It was also a land bridge between North and South America, and, to this day, temperate and tropical plants and animals from both subcontinents are found in the area.

The Maritim Crystals Beach Hotel also offers an extensive range of leisure and recreation facilities including a swimming pool, complete with whirlpool and toddler areas, which overlooks the tropical lagoon and a comprehensive selection of land and water sports including beach volleyball, aqua aerobics and boating to name but a few.

Each Alopa is build on 400 square meter land and boast 320 square meter of charming and convivial living space including a bright and airy open - plan kitchen, breakfast bar and dining area overlooking a lush tropical garden, 11 - metre swimming pool, and well - equipped TV lounge.

Graham Stott, Project Director of the Lovina Beach Resort (www.lovinabeachresort.com)-- one of the biggest developments in the area, on two hectares of land with 200 metres of beachfront and lush tropical gardens — said that whatever happened with the new airport, now was the time to invest because property prices could only increase.

The area's first settlers and descendants have nurtured this land over time by putting down deep roots so the peninsula is a perfectly - balanced mix of tropical green space, natural wonders and enough bistros, guest houses, luxury resorts and other amenities to satisfy anyone in search of a paradise.

The area known as Tropical North Queensland is a large expanse of land and although definitive boundaries vary it is generally considered to be the area covering the city of Mackay north to the tip of Cape York; including the Torres Straight Islands region.

This tropical villa stands on 2,000 sqm land area.

This tropical villa stands on 2000 sqm land area as 2 story building.

Permata Ayung Private Estate is a little further away from the international airport then the southern resort areas but the hour and a half's drive will take out of the built up south and into the classic Balinese land of traditional villages, expanses of rice paddies and tropical forests to the place where the beat of the Gamelan and the Balinese culture is more pronounced then anywhere else on the island.

Stationed on four acres of land at the heart of untouched tropical beach — Hotel Tropico boasts wonderful swimming areas and outcroppings of rock where natural pools of tide form — a customary experience of your tour!

Gaya Island Resort is located on Pulau Gaya, the largest of a cluster of five islands that form the Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park, a natural conservation area off the coast of Borneo, close to Kota Kinabalu.Gaya Island Resort has a unique setting: the land is fringed with a golden sandy beach, rocky coastal outcrops, and surrounded by coral reefs.The hilly island landscape is covered with lush tropical rainforest and an abundance of flora and fauna.And to complete this perfect setting, visible in the distance, is the stunning outline of Mount Kinabalu.The guest villa exterior respects Sabahan architecture, uses local materials and blends harmoniously with the natural environment.

Stationed on four acres of land at the heart of untouched tropical beach — Hotel Tropico boasts wonderful swimming areas and -LSB-...]

Origin of Pain is based around the cunningly named Paine Island, a small, rocky, tropical chunk of land that sits just off the shore of the game's main area.

No meaningful relationship is found between cosmic ray intensity and cloud cover over tropical and extratropical land areas back to the 1950s.

Tropical land - surface precipitation measurements indicate that precipitation likely has increased by about 0.2 to 0.3 % / decade over the 20th century, but increases are not evident over the past few decades and the amount of tropical land (versus ocean) area for the latitudes 10 ° N to 10 ° S is relativelTropical land - surface precipitation measurements indicate that precipitation likely has increased by about 0.2 to 0.3 % / decade over the 20th century, but increases are not evident over the past few decades and the amount of tropical land (versus ocean) area for the latitudes 10 ° N to 10 ° S is relativeltropical land (versus ocean) area for the latitudes 10 ° N to 10 ° S is relatively small.

The land surface area of the Northern Hemisphere latitudes of 20N - 60N is about 45 % of the total surface area, but the land surface in the tropical and Southern Hemisphere latitudes of 60S - 20N is only 17 %.

Previous studies looking at impacts of climate change on the global food supply have only considered land - based food sources and these concluded that tropical areas will see a decline in land productivity.

Globally, we have taken over about 26 % of the planet's land area (roughly 3.3 billion hectares) for cropland and pasture, replacing a third of temperate and tropical forests and a quarter of natural grasslands.

The Californian scientists warn that, by mid-century, at least 60 % of land areas in tropical Africa and along the rim of the Indian Ocean will be experiencing hotter conditions than any in the 20

Human land use changes are only roughly known, based on cleared area at one side and reforestration at the other side, and the difference betzeen CO2 capturing between tropical forests and replacement by crops, or the uptake by planting new forests.

In 1949, tropical forests covered 21 percent of the country's land area, but now less than 7 percent of Burma is forested.

Pehin Dato Yahya Bakar, Minister of Industry and Primary Resources of Brunei, committed to limit his country's agricultural footprint to 1 percent of land area while working to improve yields to achieve greater food security — for the purposes of protecting Brunei's tropical forests.

Muddy mangrove swamps hold onto as much 25 % of the carbon stored in similarly threatened tropical peat lands - despite covering a much smaller area.

The migration of what I call the thermal equator would shift the tropical belt which would have a huge impact on cloud forcing, but without large amounts of land area to accumulate snow i doubt current changes would be anything like past changes.

The Indonesian part, called Kalimantan, comprises the majority of Borneo's land mass and is home to some of the world's most expansive and oldest areas of tropical forest.

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Brazil has an land area of 8,456,510 sq km (mostly tropical) of which 29,200 sq km is irrigated.

The study, based on a computer model used to simulate rainfall under different land - use conditions, found that cutting down tropical forests in West Africa reduces precipitation over neighboring forest areas by about 50 percent due to increased temperatures over cropland areas.

Although they make up only 1 % of all tropical forest areas, the thickness of this carbon - rich layer means mangroves hold as much as a quarter of the carbon of tropical peat lands.

It is a culturally diverse society with a population of more than 22 million.21 Australia's population includes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) peoples and migrants from some 200 countries with Indigenous Australian peoples representing 2.5 % of the total population.22 In over 60 years of planned post-war migration, Australia has accepted more than 6.5 million migrants and in the most recent census (2006), 3.1 million people (16 % of the population) were reported to speak a language other than English at home.23 The majority of the population lives in the cities mainly located around the coast; however, many live in rural and remote areas ranging from dry arid land to tropical and a few live in what are arguably some of the most remote and untouched areas of the world.

Laid out on an open grassy area, it features recreated versions of their large, circular thatched dwellings, as well as a small plot of cultivated land, tropical fruit trees and life - sized models of Taino at work and play.