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Enjoy a journey to the tropics! In the Natural Inquirer Tropical edition, readers will learn about the plants and animals that make the tropics special. The tropics are the home of a variety of biomes, or regions with different kinds of vegetation and other life. Tropical biomes are largely defined by the amount of rainfall they get. In the tropics, you might find rain forests, dry forests, shrub lands, tropical plains called savannahs, and deserts. Scientists working in the International Institute of Tropical Forestry, or IITF, conducted the research in this issue.

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• I'll Huff and I'll Puff and I'll Blow Your Trees Down: How Wind Speed Affected Trees During Hurricane Hugo
• It's a Gas! The Exchange of Gases Between the Soil and the Atmosphere
• Leaf Me Alone! The Movement of Nutrients Between Trees and the Soil
• Oooh! That's Growth! Measuring Trees in Cinnamon Bay Watershed
• Please Join Us for Dinner: Tropical Birds and Their Temporary Guests
• Some Things Will Always Change: Land Use in a Dry Tropical Forest
• Swimming Upstream Without a Ladder: Dams and Pipes and River Shrimp Movements
• The Trees Have Gone Batty! How Bat Scat Helped Restore a Tropical Forest