Many groups of organisms show greater species richness in the tropics than in the temperate zone, particularly in tropical montane regions. Forty years ago, Janzen suggested that more limited temperature seasonality in the tropics leads to greater climatic zonation and more climatic barriers to organismal dispersal along elevational gradients in the tropics relative to temperate regions. These ...

Tropical cyclones (TCs) are essential elements of the hydrological cycle in tropical and subtropical regions. In the present study, the contribution of TCs to seasonal precipitation around the tropical and subtropical North America is examined. When TC activity over the tropical eastern Pacific (TEP) or the Intra Americas Seas (IAS) is below (abovenormal), regional precipitation may be below (a...

Temperature reduction in early spring, especially corporate with buds swelling, sometimes causes severe damages. Most of the fruit trees in tropical and semi-tropical regions, especially in more critical conditions, moderate, at early spring are subjected to the frostbite and winter cold injuries. This study aimed to evaluate the amount of proline, total protein, and soluble sugars during the p...

Background Cardiac MR is helpful in the diagnosis and prognosis of endomyocardial fibrosis[EMF]. Among the two types of endomyocardial fibrosis, tropical endomyocardial fibrosis is geographically restricted to tropical parts of Africa, Latin America and in the southern districts of India, especially along the coastal region of Kerala. Various toxic and environmental factors were postulated as t...

This article shows how much certain German language newspapers were a vehicule for reporting to the lay public on 'combating' tropical diseases. Through the press, immigrants and their descendents in Brazil were informed not only about the diseases which afflicted German colonists in Africa, but also about measures concerning sanitation, prophylaxis and experiments with tropical medicine, etc. ...

myiasis is an infestation of tissues with larval stage of dipterous flies.  this condition most often affects the skin and may also occur in certain body cavities.  it is mainly seen in the tropics, though it may also be rarely encountered in non-tropical regions.  herein, we present a case of cutaneous furuncular myiasis in an iranian male who had travelled to africa and his condition was fina...

Dengue is a vector-borne disease caused by dengue virus. According to the recent report of CDC that one-third population of the world are at high risk with Dengue fever. The prevalence of the dengue hemorrhagic fever was found more in tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. Aedes mosquitoes was reported as the main cause of transmission of dengue virus. So the current study was planned ...

In Australia, peritonitis is an important cause of technique failure and infectious deaths amongst peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients. The temperature and humidity differences in individual climatic regions may influence the development of PD peritonitis by changing patient behaviour and hygiene, distribution of normal skin flora, organism virulence, and the chance of contamination. Previous stu...

Mechanisms of global warming impacts on regional tropical precipitation are examined in a coupled atmosphere–ocean general circulation model (ECHAM4/OPYC3). The pattern of the regional tropical precipitation changes, once established, tends to persist, growing in magnitude as greenhouse gases increase. The sulfate aerosol induces regional tropical precipitation anomalies similar to the greenhou...

Citation: Blondeau-Patissier D, Schroeder T, Clementson LA, Brando VE, Purcell D, Ford P, Williams DK, Doxaran D, Anstee J, Thapar N and Tovar-Valencia M (2017) Bio-Optical Properties of Two Neigboring Coastal Regions of Tropical Northern Australia: The Van Diemen Gulf and Darwin Harbour. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:114. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00114 Bio-Optical Properties of Two Neigboring Coastal Regi...