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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 51, Issue 4)GUIBERSON, Brenda Z. Rain, Rain, Rain Forest. illus. by Steve Jenkins. unpaged. CIP. Holt. 2004. RTE $16.95. ISBN 0-8050-6582-2. LC 2003012250. K-Gr4--A narrative text follows the activity of rainforest creatures...
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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 50, Issue 6)GUIBERSON, Brenda Z. Rain, Rain, Rain Forest. illus. by Steve Jenkins. unpaged. CIP Holt. 2004. RTE $16.95. ISBN 08050-6582-2. LC 2003012250. K-Gr 4--This eye-catching picture book transports readers to a tropical...
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From:Science (Vol. 288, Issue 5470) Peer-ReviewedLogging and road building carve up otherwise intact expanses of forest into small and isolated islands (forest fragmentation), creating a perimeter of abrupt forest edge where ecological changes take place (1). Edge...
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From:Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (Vol. 26, Issue 21) Peer-Reviewed
Revisiting large-scale interception patterns constrained by a synthesis of global experimental data.
Rainfall interception loss remains one of the most uncertain fluxes in the global water balance, hindering water management in forested regions and precluding an accurate formulation in climate models. Here, a synthesis... -
From:Science (Vol. 234) Peer-ReviewedDamage to Tropical Forests, or Why Were There So Many Kinds of Animals? THAT renowned ecologist of Yale University, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, once wrote a paper entitled "Homage to Santa Rosalia, or, Why are there so many...
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From:Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire (Vol. 13, Issue 2-3)For Michael B. Sutton, Composer Information on Michael B. Sutton can be found on this website: http://www.saveoursoul.nl/artists/features/michael-b-sutton.html##websites You call from California to share the sound...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Fabien Wagner 1 , * , Vivien Rossi 2 , Clément Stahl 3 , Damien Bonal 4 , Bruno Hérault 1 Introduction Tropical forests are being threatened at an unprecedented scale by global change. The Amazonian...
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From:New Coin Poetry (Vol. 54, Issue 2)children's voices drift up the valley along with mist and doves sagewood flowers bright in the grey morning as usual a flock of forest weavers peck among the clover then the mist turns to rain so fine it sounds warm....
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From:New England Review (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis rain, this unremitting stoical drench that defined everything by fully soaking it was now home. It was like living in a trench in a war that never started. Men were smoking it in offices through rain-blurred...
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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 57, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIf the rain is everywhere and it is we will soon be taking to the boats and carrying with us only our most precious and lightest things: the birds, in pairs or in large flocks, two or three photos, the complete poems of...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 58, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewedtranslated from Spanish by JOHN R. SESGO Now and again I can hear the rain galloping on the patio roof. When it quiets down, it sounds like the waves breaking on a distant summer evening in that hotel room by the...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 44, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedRain's coming up through the counties below, so maybe all the farmers now will stop their song and dance of worry, the old aw-shucks-throw-in-the-towel-can't-catch-a-break riff hummed each morning at the Feed & Seed. So...
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From:Parameters (Vol. 36, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Generals: Andrew Jackson, Sir Edward Pakenham, and the Road to the Battle of New Orleans. By Benton Rain Patterson. New York: New York University Press, 2005. 289 pages. $32.95. The Battle of New Orleans is often...
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From:Ecological Monographs (Vol. 65, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract. Mortality rates of 205 tree and shrub species were estimated during two intervals, 1982-1985 and 1985-1990, in two size classes, 1-10 and [is greater than or equal to] LE 10 cm in diameter, in a 50-ha census...
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From:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (Vol. 100, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Amazon rainforest is crucial in regulating the global climate system, recycling water vapor from the Atlantic Ocean, and transporting heat and moisture from the tropics to the subtropics. During the last decades,...
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From:Pacific Science (Vol. 60, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: This study examined the composition and structure of tropical rain forest in four permanent plots on the island of Ta'u, American Samoa. Two 1-ha plots were established in coastal forest, one in an abandoned...
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From:BMC Research Notes (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedObjective Reported rainfall data from multiple rain gauges and its corresponding estimate from Dual-Polarization (Dual-Pol) radar is presented here. The ordered set of data pairs were collected from multiple peer...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Yi Y. Liu 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , * , Jason P. Evans 2 , Matthew F. McCabe 1 , 5 , Richard A. M. de Jeu 3 , Albert I. J. M. van Dijk 4 , 6 , Albertus J. Dolman 3 , Izuru Saizen 7 Introduction The extensive...
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From:The Ecologist (Vol. 29, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe massive and continued destruction of tropical rainforests in the Amazon Basin will exacerbate global warming. This is because tropical rainforests provide a stable ecological base by generating hot, humid air that...
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From:Biogeosciences (Vol. 17, Issue 21) Peer-ReviewedIn the Amazonian rain forest, major parts of trees and shrubs are covered by epiphytic cryptogams of great taxonomic variety, but their relevance in biosphere-atmosphere exchange, climate processes, and nutrient cycling...