Vegetation of the Humid Tropics

The hydrology of the humid tropics

655 Fresh water is under pressure in the humid tropics from population growth, land use and climate change, all of which are influenced by humans. These pressures are likely to have profound consequences. Here we present a research vision for the humid tropics as an outcome of a community workshop held in Hawaii in March 2011. This report includes various perspectives from the international sci...

Soils of the Humid and Sub-humid Tropics

Designing Agricultural Ecosystems for the Humid Tropics

Warmth, moisture, and constancy are the environmental factors responsible for the potentially high productivity of the humid tropical lowlands. Ironically, they are also the biome’s greatest ecological constraints to agriculture. Chemical weathering increases with temperature and is three to six times faster in the tropics than in the temperate zone (125, 250). This frequently leads to the deve...

An Assessment of the Performance and CarcassYield of Broilers Fed Indomie Waste® in the Humid Tropics

This study was conducted using one hundred and eighty (180) day-old broiler chicks, of Anak strain to assess the levels of inclusion of indomie waste meal as a substitute for maize at 0, 25, 50, 75 and 100%. The birds were randomly assigned to dietary treatments using completely randomized design (CRD). Each treatment contained 3 replicates and each replicate had 6 birds. The study lasted for e...

Thermal comfort in the hot humid tropics of Australia.

Day and night comfort votes were recorded from Caucasian residents at Weipa, a mission station in the hot humid tropics of North Queensland, Australia. The limit of day comfort for more than 50% of the men was 81 5°F. (27-5°C.) "normal" corrected effective temperature; the night limit was 78'00F. (25 5°C.). Day comfort limits correlated well with air conditions at which sweat was apparent: nigh...