Tag: Tropical

Make and Grow Your Own Tropical Fish Foods Give your pets a better diet and save money


Free Download Gary C Sutcliffe, "Make and Grow Your Own Tropical Fish Foods: Give your pets a better diet and save money"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1983299995 | EPUB | pages: 156 | 4.3 mb
Most people who keep tropical fish in aquariums feed them flake food or pellets purchased at a store. Fish fed these foods will do fine for the most part, but a partial diet of easy to make or grow foods help the fish display their best colors, encourage breeding, and are essential for raising baby fish.Surprisingly you may already have some of these foods in your kitchen or can get them at the local grocery store. This book shows you how to select and prepare human foods for your pets.Most fish in the wild eat small worms, insects, shrimp, and other small animals. The next step is to raise one or more of these yourself. This book explains how to culture over a dozen types of live foods for fish using materials found at home or the grocery store. There is an emphasis on sourcing starter cultures and materials at low cost Making and Growing Your Own Tropical Fish Food gives readers the ability to provide their aquarium fish a better diet for less money.

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Tropical Despotisms Enlightened Reform in the French Caribbean


Free Download David Allen Harvey, "Tropical Despotisms: Enlightened Reform in the French Caribbean"
English | ISBN: 1501776673 | 2024 | 306 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Tropical Despotisms reveals the alarm that spread among France’s Caribbean possessions during the period between the Seven Years’ War and the Revolution and the determination to cultivate a new patriotic community rooted in the Enlightenment principles of honor and civic virtue.

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Major Flowering Trees of Tropical Gardens


Free Download M. S. Swaminathan, "Major Flowering Trees of Tropical Gardens"
English | ISBN: 1108481957 | 2019 | 416 pages | PDF | 130 MB
This comprehensive text on flowering trees of tropical gardens discusses some new species of trees, including Adansonia digitata, Monodora myristica, Flacourtia montana, Balanites aegyptiaca, Bursera serrata, Commiphora wightii and Semecarpus anacardium. The text covers more than 200 of the most striking and widespread trees alongside closely related genera and species (both native and exotic) commonly encountered in the tropical climate. It includes more than 700 high resolution coloured photographs, depicting different facets including growth habit, morphological details of stem, leaves, flowers and fruits. The different tree species are organized according to Bentham and Hooker’s system of classification of seed plants. The book discusses many aspects of trees including common and botanical names together with synonyms, taxonomic families, etymology (how trees have derived their names), phenology, their native place, geographical distribution, mythological notes, religious significance and economic importance. The text is useful for graduate students and academic researchers in the field of life sciences.

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Tropical Peatland Eco-evaluation


Free Download Tropical Peatland Eco-evaluation by Mitsuru Osaki, Nobuyuki Tsuji, Tsuyoshi Kato, Albertus Sulaiman
English | EPUB (True) | 2023 | 294 Pages | ISBN : 9819967899 | 120.1 MB
This book focuses on eco-evaluation system monitoring and sensing, carbon-water modeling, mapping, and disaster prediction. It is the 3rd book on tropical peatland issues, following 1st "Tropical Peatland Ecosystem" and 2nd "Tropical Peatland Eco-management" publications. Tropical peatland is also a wetland, mangrove, and rainforest. With this nature, two major key elements of tropical peatland are water and forest. This book introduces the relationship and interaction among water, oxygen, and nutrients as well as aspects of the forest as the driving force of carbon stock and the carbon cycle. Eco-evaluation system is key to conserving, managing, and restoring tropical peatlands, however comprehensive system for Eco-evaluation in the Tropics is not yet established. This book reviews and proposes Eco-evaluation methods in the Tropics Ecosystem, focusing mainly on the peatland ecosystem and others, covering Social Capital such as Credit, Bonds, National Accounting, etc.

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Models for Tropical Climate Dynamics Waves, Clouds, and Precipitation


Free Download Models for Tropical Climate Dynamics: Waves, Clouds, and Precipitation by Boualem Khouider
English | EPUB | 2019 | 303 Pages | ISBN : 3030177742 | 123.3 MB
This book is a survey of the research work done by the author over the last 15 years, in collaboration with various eminent mathematicians and climate scientists on the subject of tropical convection and convectively coupled waves. In the areas of climate modelling and climate change science, tropical dynamics and tropical rainfall are among the biggest uncertainties of future projections.

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Geo-trekking in Ethiopia’s Tropical Mountains The Dogu’a Tembien District


Free Download Geo-trekking in Ethiopia’s Tropical Mountains: The Dogu’a Tembien District by Jan Nyssen
English | EPUB | 2019 | 675 Pages | ISBN : 303004954X | 237.1 MB
This book is based on over 150 scientific papers about the Dogu’a Tembien district in Ethiopia. To reach a broader public of people interested in geosites and human-environment interactions, the authors here add a geoguide about this mountain district in Ethiopia(13°30′ N, 39°10′ E; upto 2850 m high) which shows a varied lithology.

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Rum Made Me Do It 60 Tantalizingly Tropical Cocktails


Free Download Rum Made Me Do It: 60 Tantalizingly Tropical Cocktails by Lance Mayhew, Ruby Taylor
English | May 9, 2023 | ISBN: 1524884502 | 144 pages | MOBI | 21 Mb
This beautifully illustrated cocktail book celebrates tropical vacation in a glass: 60 delicious rum recipes, from legendary classics to fresh new creations.

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Geo-trekking in Ethiopia’s Tropical Mountains The Dogu’a Tembien District (2024)


Free Download Geo-trekking in Ethiopia’s Tropical Mountains: The Dogu’a Tembien District by Jan Nyssen
English | EPUB | 2019 | 675 Pages | ISBN : 303004954X | 237.1 MB
This book is based on over 150 scientific papers about the Dogu’a Tembien district in Ethiopia. To reach a broader public of people interested in geosites and human-environment interactions, the authors here add a geoguide about this mountain district in Ethiopia(13°30′ N, 39°10′ E; upto 2850 m high) which shows a varied lithology.

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