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  • n  regions adjacent to the tropics

  • Beyond the fact that people prefer warmth to cold, there's a reason the world's population is clustered in the Tropics and subtropics: warmer climates usually mean longer and .
  • This immense land, stretching from the Arctic to the subtropics and from the Polish border to the North Pacific, contains 147 million of the Soviet Union's 286 million people, 75 .
  • Fortunately, forest carbon storage is most efficient in the tropics and subtropics.
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  • Barcodes for trees: Researchers identify genetic fingerprints of endangered conifers
    In the tropics and subtropics, many evergreen conifers are endangered. Biologists have collected the world’s largest Podocarpaceae collection. They sequenced characteristic parts of the DNA of these conifers in order to generate a “DNA barcode” for each species. With the help of this genetic fingerprint, unknown individuals can be assigned to the respective Podocarpaceae species, which are often ...
    Nov. 28, 2013 - Science Daily

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