tropical forests

Tropical forests provide a vast array of medicinal plants used in healing and healthcare, worth an estimated $108 billion a year.

NGO's are mobilising themselves to save one of the last tropical forests of the island of Sumatra.

Sumatra in Indonesia's tropical forests, grows a very unusual plant, whose name is big plants, known as the world's largest flower.

The islands are mountainous, with peaks up to 1200 m and covered with tropical forests.

Airworthy again, [a replica of a] Vimy [biplane] sails over Java's lush, densely populated farmlands [and tropical forests].

Butterflies that flit through tropical forests often have brightly colored wings that irridesce in the sun.

To expand cattle-ranching, tropical forests have been cut down to provide grasslands for "hamburger cattle" .

Tropical forests are being cut and burnt at such a speed that they are . . .

The Riau province of Indonesia is home to one of the densest tropical forests in the world.

Mangroves make up less than one percent of all tropical forests. Mr. Donato says the report should get the attention of policymakers.

The lush tropical forests of this cloud covered island are famous for wildlife found nowhere else on earth.

This results in numerous open spaces in both deep tropical forests and in the woodlands that cover part of the African savannas.

Rescue teams also are combing the island's dense tropical forests and mountainous terrain on its western coast.

The State Department predicts these debt-for-nature programs together will generate more than $218 million to protect tropical forests.

Huge tropical forests cover the southwestern parts and large portions are still virtually inaccessible.

Mountain areas around the tropical forests, layer upon layer, not Weiyi.

Gunatilleke says the ISAR method should be tried in other tropical forests and temperate forests, to verify and improve it if necessary.

With long, cold winters and short, cool summers, the boreal woods have far less biodiversity than tropical forests.

Shifting cultivation is practiced in the tropical forests of Central and South America, Africa and south-east Asia.

Ironically, the diversity of species in tropical forests also presents dendroclimatologists with problems.

They seek insights from natural phenomena like clouds and glaciers, deserts and tropical forests.

pioneered important efforts to develop Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Management of Natural Tropical Forests in 1990.

Tropical forests are characterized by a rapid turnover of nutrients.

In the tropical forests the American Indians became hunters of birds and small game.

This agricultural expansion has come at the expense of tropical forests in both countries.

Have Ben Bernanke's green shoots magically turned into tropical forests overnight? Hardly.

Most tribal peoples survive15 in areas which traditionally have been marginal to16 business-the Arctic, the desert, tropical forests.

Fewer than 3, 000 of these hippos are left in the wild, inhabiting the lowland tropical forests of western Africa.

Santa Marta also benefits from the bounty of virgin tropical forests just miles from the city center.

The environment around Yushan ranges from sub-tropical forests at its base to alpine conditions at its peak.

Tropical forests cover only 12 percent of the planet but are home to more than one-half of the Earth's known plants and animal species.

Such research inquiry is a powerful source of pertinent knowledge for protecting tropical forests.

We know that this can be done while protecting the world's remaining tropical forests.

Tropical forests play an essential role in regulating the global carbon balance.

Deforestation is mainly caused by the cutting-down of tropical forests to provide land for agriculture.

DEPRESSING reports about how quickly the world's tropical forests are being felled are commonplace.

One reason is the stable price of most commercial tree species in tropical forests .

Despite a faddish Western concern for tropical forests, more were cleared in the ensuing decade than ever before.

Results from the largest ever survey of tropical forests, released today (25 May), will be seen by many as bad news for biodiversity.

We call on the government to make laws to protect tropical forests. Middle students also can take actions to protect the forests.

Tables1-1 and 1-2 show how two organizations promote the concept of preservation of tropical forests.

Apes live primarily in the tropical forests of Africa and Asia.

It can be found in the humid tropical forests from Mexico to Argentina.

This is a small tribe of grasses found in the understory of tropical forests.

A fair amount is known about the life in tropical forests, too.

Tropical forests, mountains, hainan is 1, 000 meters above the mountain at an altitude of 81, roll, its unusual shape, momentum majestic.

For example, tropical forests require mapping individual trees in plots of more than 25 hectares.

Indigenous Knowledge Informing Management of Tropical Forests: The Link between Rhythms in Plant Secondary Chemistry and Lunar Cycles

Characteristics of litter and soil arthropod communities at different successional stages of tropical forests

Charter of the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests ; Charter of Forest Peoples ;

Modeling growth dynamics and simulation of forest management in tropical forests of southwestern China

Initiating the Sustainable Management of Secondary Tropical Forests and Degraded Forest Lands According to "Mutual Impelling" Principle

Guidelines for Sustainable Management of Tropical Forests;

Dynamics of Amomum villosum growth and its fruit yield cultivated under tropical forests

Study on Community Dynamics of Secondary Tropical Forests: Review and Prospects

Low-density species and the mechanism of their formation and maintenance in tropical forests

Simulation of niche fitness of plant seedlings in succession of south Asian tropical forests

ANIP; International Alliance of Indigenous Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests;

Seasonal soil seed bank dynamics in tropical forests in Xishuangbanna

Patch dynamics in tropical forests and the maintenance of tree species diversity

Plant diversity and the mechanism for its maintenance in tropical forests

The dense tropical forests of the Amazon basin

Tropical Forests Of The Guiana Shield

Butterflies in the Tropical Forests

100 Caterpillars: Portraits From The Tropical Forests Of Costa Rica

It is estimated that tropical forests may contain