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High altitude zone in Kigezi, Sebel, parts of Ankole, west Nile, Toro, Mbale; temperate-zone crops
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Older forests of the Southeast are among the most biologically diverse temperate-zone forests.
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In many temperate-zone areas, aquatic phytoplankton populations undergo large increases (blooms) in the spring when duration of sunlight increases and high levels of nutrients are in the water following winter.
Bottom-up control 2008
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The Pacific Northwest has a greater area of older forest than any other temperate-zone region on earth, and it has seen many heated policy and public debates about old growth over the past 25 years.
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Agronomists and geneticists have re-engineered temperate-zone crops for the tropics: through selective breeding, scientists have altered the growing cycle of soybeans, steeling them to sauna-like weather and inducing the beans to ripen despite the reduced daylight hours of the tropics.
Under Construction 2007
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Tasmania, the island off the southern coast of Australia, has unique wildlife and spectacular, temperate-zone rain forests.
Steve and Me Terri Irwin 2007
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Tasmania, the island off the southern coast of Australia, has unique wildlife and spectacular, temperate-zone rain forests.
Steve and Me Terri Irwin 2007
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This could lead to potential increases in malaria incidence on the order of 50-80 million additional annual cases, relative to an assumed global background total of 500 million cases, primarily in tropical, subtropical, and less well-protected temperate-zone populations.
Mosquitos, malaria and the IPCC "consensus" « Climate Audit 2005
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It was cool, wet, and heavily forested with unique temperate-zone flora.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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The number of children you produce, the number of miles you drive, and your yearning for a home in the country wilderness getaways for Thoreau wanna-bes represent a severe cause of habitat loss and fragmentation in affluent temperate-zone nations all have their impacts on jeopardized populations of other species and on the cohesiveness of ecosystems.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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