The vegetation of the Solomon Islands

1969 ◽  
Vol 255 (800) ◽  
pp. 259-270 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Tropical Rain Forest ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Seasonal Climate ◽  
Small Areas ◽  
Wet Climate

The Solomon Islands are entirely clothed in tropical rain forest except for small areas of probably anthropogenous grasslands and heaths which occur in regions with a seasonal climate. The main features of the vegetation are described and related to the exceptionally wet climate of the archipelago. The extensive areas which carry thickets of small trees and climber tangles instead of high forest are thought due to the combined influence of man, earthquake, landslip and cyclone. Many species are shown to have wide ecological amplitudes.

scholarly journals POLLEN RECORDS FROM THE OLIGOCENE OF WESTERN INDONESIA AS THE EVIDENCES OF CLIMATE CHANGES

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 107-115
Author(s):  
Eko Budi Lelono
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
Lacustrine Sediments ◽  
Pollen Assemblage ◽  
Preparation Methods ◽  
Shallow Marine ◽  
Seasonal Climate ◽  
Early Oligocene ◽  
Climate Indicators ◽  
Wet Climate

In Southeast Asia, Oligocene climate is well known to be represented by dry/ seasonal climate. However, it was reported possible appearance of wet climate period during the expantion of dry condition. This work is aimed to confi rm the Oligocene climate which occurred in western Indonesia. Climate change is useful to understand the Oligocene stratigraphy of Western Indonesia. This study uses cutting samples from off shore exploration wells situated in West and East Java and West Natuna as well as on-shore Central Sumatera and West Java. Samples are processed using standard preparation methods to produce suitable pollen assemblage for quantitative analysis.This study proves that the Oligocene sediments yield rich pollen assemblages including those of environment and climate indicators. Abundant fresh water algae of Pediastrum and Bosedinia in Early Oligocene indicates the appearance of lacustrine sediments. This sediment was formed under dry/ seasonal climate as marked by rich grass pollen Monoporites annulatus in the absence or rare occurance of rain forest elements. Mean while, Late Oligocene is characterised by common brackish elements to indicate shifting paleoenvironment into transition to shallow marine. The climate was changing into wetter condition as evidenced by high appearance of Dacrydium and Casuarina as well as other rain forest palynomorphs. The wettest climate probably occured in Java region which refl ected a wet climate fringe to the eastern margin of Sundaland prior to the collision of the Australian and Asian Plates at the Oligo-Miocene boundary. However, in general, dry/ seasonal climate is the rule for most of the Oligocene in Western Indonesia.

The Effects of a Tropical rain Forest Cover on Airborne Gamma-Ray Spectrometry

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Enio B. Pereira ◽  
Daniel J.R. Nordemann
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Tropical Rain Forest ◽  
Forest Cover ◽  
Gamma Ray ◽  
Gamma Ray Spectrometry

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scholarly journals (5d RG-flow) trees in the tropical rain forest

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marieke van Beest ◽  
Antoine Bourget ◽  
Julius Eckhard ◽  
Sakura Schäfer-Nameki
Keyword(s):  
Large Class ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Tropical Rain Forest ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Flavor Symmetry ◽  
Superconformal Field Theories ◽  
Hasse Diagrams ◽  
Flavor Symmetries ◽  
Rank 2 ◽  
Mass Deformation

Abstract 5d superconformal field theories (SCFTs) can be obtained from 6d SCFTs by circle compactification and mass deformation. Successive decoupling of hypermultiplet matter and RG-flow generates a decoupling tree of descendant 5d SCFTs. In this paper we determine the magnetic quivers and Hasse diagrams, that encode the Higgs branches of 5d SCFTs, for entire decoupling trees. Central to this undertaking is the approach in [1], which, starting from the generalized toric polygons (GTPs) dual to 5-brane webs/tropical curves, provides a systematic and succinct derivation of magnetic quivers and their Hasse diagrams. The decoupling in the GTP description is straightforward, and generalizes the standard flop transitions of curves in toric polygons. We apply this approach to a large class of 5d KK-theories, and compute the Higgs branches for their descendants. In particular we determine the decoupling tree for all rank 2 5d SCFTs. For each tree, we also identify the flavor symmetry algebras from the magnetic quivers, including non-simply-laced flavor symmetries.

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