The New Neotropical Companion
montane (i.e., mountainous) life zones, the latitude may be well within the Torrid Zone, but elevation makes all the difference. ...
Welcome to the Jungle: A Quick Overview Because of the relatively constant presence of heat, rain, and humidity, much of the Neo ...
The Asa Wright Nature Centre and Simla The Asa Wright Nature Centre bears the name of a courageous and formidable woman, Asa Wri ...
facility of the highest quality. It offers an outstanding rain forest experience that includes daily guided tours to such places ...
allowing several people to stand and look out at the canopy. The narrow spans between the tree platforms are built rather like s ...
below. A thought occurs, and recurs many times: from the ground, we’d never know this little animal was up here. The canopy walk ...
What about Bugs, Spiders, and Snakes? It is the question I am asked the most often. “If I go anywhere in the Neotropics, am I go ...
habitations. Most are not obvious until you are right upon them (sometimes literally!). So be careful, carry a flashlight when y ...
Another source of conservation concern is the changes that are occurring in the global cycling of such essential elements as nit ...
“Hot, humid, and rainy” is the first observation virtually everyone makes about the tropics, particularly the lowland tropics. T ...
annual temperature against mean annual precipitation (fig. 2- 2). Tropical rain forests will fall into the area on the graph whe ...
hot and humid, with the temperature averaging somewhat higher during dry season than in rainy season. Realize that in the tropic ...
for sailing ships carrying goods for trading), except near the equator at the ITC, an area called the doldrums (fig. 2- 4). In t ...
The Rain Forest Biome: Is the Climatic Devil in the Details? By now you ought to understand how much annual air temperature and ...
Why Be So Concerned about Seasonality? The seasonal shift from rainy to dry seasons has direct effects on plants and animals inh ...
thus enhancing efficacy of cross- pollination. Some tree species synchronize their flowering after downpours, an adaptation that ...
tropical ecosystems in particular can be anywhere from moderately to severely affected. El Niños tend to alternate with another ...
The most abundant carcasses were those of coatis, agoutis, peccaries, howler monkeys, opossums, armadillos, and porcupines; ther ...
Plate 3- 1. The tropical rain forest is tall and structurally complex, challenging the naturalist to make sure to see the forest ...
First Impressions: Into the Forest Welcome to the green and complex world of the rain forest. As for first impressions, it doesn ...
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