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That was when we shifted from deforestation of temperate forests to deforestation of tropical forests.
Some were toxic, including the tropical milkweed, with very high concentrations of these cardenolides.
Cockroaches continue to thrive in their native tropical habitats, but without our heating systems, their urban cousins likely freeze and die out in just two winters.
From little huts to elaborate bridges like this one in Java, bamboo has been in use across the tropical regions of the world for literally tens of thousands of years.
My parents definitely didn't think so when I told them at 19 I was quitting my job to pursue this dream career: blue skies, warm tropical beaches, and a tan that lasts all year long.
And this is what I've loved about South Florida, that in one place, you have this unstoppable force of mankind meeting the immovable object of tropical nature.
Tropical forests and other ecosystems are being destroyed, climate change, so many species on the brink of extinction: tigers, lions, elephants, rhinos, tapirs.
Tapirs are mostly found in tropical forests such as the Amazon, and they absolutely need large patches of habitat in order to find all the resources they need to reproduce and survive.
For some tropical fish, the question of will it be a boy or will it be a girl isn't settled until even later in life.
These jobs are also done by the plants, the animals and the ecosystems on our planet, including the ecosystems I study: the tropical coral reefs.
And on the eastern end of the island, where the reefs are intact and thriving, you could barely tell a tropical storm had passed.
But in town, where corals had died from overfishing, from pollution, the tropical storm picked up the dead corals and used them as bludgeons to kill the corals that were left.
This phenomenon is very, very relevant to anything that you've ever seen on a tropical reef.
The next time you see a news report of a hurricane or a tropical storm showing high winds battering trees and houses, ask yourself, "How did the wind get going so fast?"
It was collected from close to Antarctica, thousands of meters below the sea, so, very different than the kinds of corals you may have been lucky enough to see if you've had a tropical holiday.
So how do we steel ourselves for voyages whose destinations are so far removed from a tropical vacation?
Together, we looked at a variety of biological systems, ranging from natural tropical rainforests through to managed forests and fisheries.
And many other tropical forests are the same, and not just tropical forests.
So experts feared that without him keeping a lid on things, the country would explode, or religious extremists would take over and turn Indonesia into a tropical version of Iran.
In the lush rainforests of Australia, birds roost in the low branches and amble across the forest floor, enjoying the shade and tropical fruits.
Our team has been hard at work over the past few years, conducting missions in some of the toughest ocean conditions on the planet, from the Arctic to the tropical Pacific.
But soon, some of our Sun-adapted ancestors migrated northward out of the tropical zone, spreading far and wide across the Earth.
And tropical forests tell their own story.
The last example I have are these healthy tropical corals.
And this matters, because if your job is to block incoming sunlight, you are going to be much more effective in the tropics under that intense tropical sun than you are in higher latitudes.
They kept me outside that day, during a tropical downpour.
So, I did tropical ecology and plant botany.
Your few four-legged ancestors, the tetrapods, struggled in tropical river plains.
Researchers have been able to trace the origins of the sickle cell mutation to regions historically ravaged by a tropical disease called malaria.
There was a survey that was done in the 1970s in a Panamanian tropical forest that found that sloths were the most numerically abundant large animal.
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