Synonyms for tropics
trop·ics

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1. tropicsnoun

   Synonyms:
   torrid zone, tropical zone

2. tropicsnoun

   The region of the Earth, centred on the equator and lying between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn and characterized by a hot climate.

   Synonyms:
   tropical zone, torrid zone

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1. Torrid Zone, tropical zone, tropicsnoun

   the part of the Earth's surface between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn; characterized by a hot climate

   Synonyms:
   tropical zone

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1. Stephen Simpson:

   There is a severe food security risk in the tropics, no species are already activated to temperatures warmer than the tropics, so you could see a real crash in food fish populations. And these are places where coastal nations often have no other protein in the diet other than the fish from coral reefs.

2. Cristian Romn-Palacios:

   This is a big problem because the majority of plant and animal species occur in the tropics.

3. Colin Simpfendorfer:

   The tropics host incredible shark and ray diversity, but too many of these inherently vulnerable species have been heavily fished for more than a century by a wide range of fisheries that remain poorly managed, despite countless commitments to improve, as a result, we fear we will soon confirm that one or more of these species has been driven to extinction from overfishing, a deeply troubling first for marine fishes. We will work to make this study a turning point in efforts to prevent any more irreversible losses and secure long-term sustainability.

4. Roger Shaw:

   Being in the tropics with cyclones and the rest adds complexity, but we still need to do more.

5. Direk Limmathurotsakul:

   Melioidosis is a great mimicker of other diseases and you need a good microbiology laboratory for bacterial culture and identification to make an accurate diagnosis, it especially affects the rural poor in the tropics, who often do not have access to microbiology labs, which means that it has been greatly under-estimated as an important public health problem across the world.