Sentences with phrase «tropical vegetation covers»
Located in the city center next to the presidential compound of Istana Bogor, this paradise of tropical vegetation covers 210 acres and is home to nearly 14.000 different trees and plants.
http://www.glamourgrannytravels.com/ Not exact matches
Tropical forests covered most of the globe, including Europe, and even Antarctica was covered with vegetation.
Its location in the heart of an anomalous tropical desert means that unlike in the Amazon or the jungles of Central America, the fossils are not covered by dense vegetation.
Tropical forests are especially important because, even though they cover only 7 percent of the Earth's surface, they contain the largest vegetation carbon stocks, and are also important carbon sinks.
Lowland Antarctica was warm and covered in near - tropical vegetation, and London was a mangrove swamp as rainforests spread across much of the planet.
More than 60 percent of the island is covered in lush tropical vegetation and protected within three national parks, including the Morne Trois Piton National Park, which has been named a World Heritage Site.
At the same time, the Peruvian Rainforest is fully covered with big woods and forest, with the most tropical vegetation and you can explore flor and fauna on the many tours to the jungle that lead you deep into the Peruvian Amazone.
Explore its beautiful tropical vegetation which covers its mountains and shelters hundreds of species of birds, orchids, and wildlife such as the ocelot, the jaguar and the iguana.
The two pyramidal cones, covered with thick tropical vegetation, were formed by lava from a volcanic eruption 30 to 40 million years ago.
The private island, covered with tropical vegetation, is surrounded by the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Sir Francis Drake Channel.
We speculate that the dust is mainly eolian in origin and that the availability and transport of dust are influenced by variations in the vegetation cover on the Maastrichtian - Paleocene African or Asian zone, which were respectively located at tropical to subtropical latitudes to the south or far to the east of the western Tethyan Umbria - Marche Basin, and were characterized by monsoonal circulation.
Rainfall change and variability is very likely to affect vegetation in tropical grassland and savanna systems with, for example, a reduction in cover and productivity simulated along an aridity gradient in southern African savanna in response to the observed drying trend of about 8 mm / yr since 1970 (Woodward and Lomas, 2004a).
It uses satellite data from MODIS vegetation indices (MOD13Q1 and NDVI) and products related to presence of water bodies (MOD35) as well as Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) precipitation data to detect anthropogenic changes in vegetation cover every 16 days.
Changes in vegetation cover affect surface energy and water balances at the regional scale, from boreal to tropical forests.