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An area of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. The tropical rainforests of South America contain the largest diversity of species on Earth. [1] [2] Tropical rainforest climate zones (Af). Tropical forests: from the UN FRA2000 report. Tropical rainforests are dense and warm rainforests with high rainfall typically found between 10° north and south ...
Name Description Year Louis Aldrich [citation needed] American actor 1843 Charles George James Arbuthnot [citation needed] British general 1801 Asmahan [1] Syrian singer 1912 Charles Barbier de Meynard: French historian and orientalist 1826 Watson Cheyne, 1st Baronet [2] British surgeon 1852 Westmoreland Davis [3] Governor of Virginia: 1859 ...
People from Argentine Antarctica (5 P) B. Botanists active in Antarctica (1 P) ... List of people born at Esperanza Base; Pedro de Ezcurra; G. Francis Gambacorta; M.
About 70% of the world's freshwater reserves are frozen in Antarctica, which, if melted, would raise global sea levels by almost 60 metres (200 ft). Antarctica holds the record for the lowest measured temperature on Earth, −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F). The coastal regions can reach temperatures over 10 °C (50 °F) in the summer.
When people discuss the tropics, it is normal to use generalized labels to group together similar tropical areas. Common terms would include the humid -tropics ( rainforests ); the arid-tropics ( deserts and dry areas); or monsoon zones (those areas that have well defined wet/dry seasons and experience monsoons).
This is a list of terrestrial ecoregions as compiled by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The WWF identifies terrestrial , freshwater , and marine ecoregions . The terrestrial scheme divides the Earth's land surface into 8 biogeographic realms , containing 867 smaller ecoregions.
The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [ 2 ] of which 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest . [ 3 ]
Other tropical and subtropical coniferous forests ecoregions occur in Asia. Mexico harbors the world's richest and most complex subtropical coniferous forests. [2] The conifer forests of the Greater Antilles contain many endemics and relictual taxa. [1] [3] Many migratory birds and butterflies spend winter in tropical and subtropical conifer ...