Neotropics

Word NEOTROPICS
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What do we mean by neotropics?

Tropical America: the tropical areas of North, Central and South America; the tropics of the New World.

The biogeographic region of the New World that stretches south from the Tropic of Cancer and includes southern Mexico, Central & South America & the West Indies. Urban Dictionary

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The word "neotropics" in example sentences

Mammals of the neotropics: the central neotropics. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Nine orders and about 27 families of mammals are represented and all are typical of the adjacent mainland and the wider neotropics. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Guajira/Barranquilla ecoregion along the Caribbean Sea in Venezuela and Colombia is a unique xerophytic area in the neotropics. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Mexican dry forests in general are considered richer in endemic species than dry forests elsewhere in the neotropics. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It called for massive biological surveys, especially in the neotropics, and for the circumvention of legal barriers to the use of US federal funds for the purchase of land in other countries (Soulé & Kohm 1989). ❋ Sarkar, Sahotra (2004)

Inga edulis has been introduced throughout the neotropics, but seed is usually collected from a few trees already established in plantations and transported over very short distances. ❋ Unknown (1996)

The bulk of the increase in the neotropics has occurred in Brazil, owing to the fiscal incentives program which ran from 1967 to 1986 and averaged some 300,000 ha per year from the early 1970s, but has since diminished to about one-tenth of this level. ❋ Unknown (1992)

Inga edulis has been introduced throughout the neotropics, but seed is usually collected from a few trees already estabfished in plantations and transported over very short distances. ❋ Unknown (1990)

We offer multi-day ecotour expeditions into this remote area, the largest Central American reserve of tropical rainforest, whitewater rafting trips, float trips and hiking in the rainforest jungles, marshes, mangroves and cloud forests of the best preserved area in the Central American neotropics. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Rubio-Palis Y, Zimmerman RH (1997) Ecoregional classification of malaria vectors in the neotropics. ❋ Simon I. Hay Et Al. (2010)

Let's say that you are a serious birder on your first trip to the neotropics and are hoping to see as many species as possible. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Travelers to the neotropics-the tropical lands of the Americas-might be forgiven for thinking that all of the colorful insects flittering over sunny puddles or among dense forest understory are butterflies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But now a decade after the eagle's delisting how is the national bird fairing, shorn of the protections of the ESA, forced to endure the depredations of the Bush administration and enervating new threats such as climate change, prolonged droughts and ceaseless raids on wintering habitat in the neotropics? ❋ Unknown (2009)

From what we know now, it is apparent that many plant and animal species of the neotropics originated prior to the ice ages that began roughly 2.5 million years ago. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Thus, the known ages of species origins in the neotropics do not exclude the possibility of significant Pleistocene diversification as put forward by Haffer. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The [convict] [cichlid] is a neotropical [fish]. ❋ Jace. (2005)

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