the local albedo (the fraction of the incident solar radiation that is reflected, without being absorbed): for example, snow-covered tundra is more reflective, and therefore cooler during the daytime, than a snow-covered forest. • the roughness of the land surface: wind speeds in the lowest...
1998 . Geographical ecology of the gymnophthalmid lizard Neusticurus ecpleopus in the Amazon rain forest. Canadian Journal of Zoology 76: 1671 – 1680 .AND M. C. ESPOSITO. 1998. Geographical ecology of the gymnophthalmid lizard Neusticurus ecpleopus in the Amazon rain- forest. Ibid. 76:...
Peru is a country with three main geographical areas: a narrow dry flat land【1】(run) along the coast, the Andes Mountains, and the Amazon rainforest. It’s a country【2】both Indian and Spanish culture and art can be seen. Spain【3】(take) control of Peru in the 16th century and...
From here, they travelled by boat into the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve, a 2,000-square-kilometre area of wild tropical rainforest at the head of the Amazon River. They spent the next three weeks here, working alongside dedicated researchers and conservationists from the Peruvian University of...
Ecogeographical variation in skull shape of capuchin monkeysAmazon rain forestCebidaeclimategeometric morphometricspartial least squaresprimatesSouth Americavariation partitioningAimBecause of their recent evolutionary radiation, capuchin monkeys represent an ideal group with which to investigate ecomorphological ...
of means by which humid forest-inhabiting woodpeckers can achieve bold plumage phentoypes. Alternatively, unconcealed large white plumage patches might simply subject humid forest-dwelling birds to evolutionarily unacceptable levels of predation (the abundance and preferences of predators such asAccipiter...
‘… the data could be flexibly accessed: it would not be organized through a single, rigid system of classification, but could be queried through “runs” that would generate reports about potential target systems based on selected criteria such as industry and location. As Lowe explained, “[...
To do so, Tomas travelled across America with a small quadcopter drone bought from Amazon.com attached to his camera. His concept was simple,Rena Silvermanexplainsin theNew York Times: Take the idea of foreign drone strikes and instead target similar domestic situations, putting them under surveil...
Forest Ecology and Management 45:269–280. Article Google Scholar Perrault-Archambault, M. and O. T. Coomes. 2008. Distribution of agrobiodiversity in homegardens along the Corrientes River, Peruvian Amazon. Economic Botany 62(2):109–126. Article Google Scholar Ramakrishnan, P. S. 1992....
The landscape, from a geographical point of view, means a combination of elements where all the variables that have an influence on the territory are condensed [38,39]. As Zoido-Naranjo confirms (2005) [40], this involves the location and arrangement of the elements and uses of the ...