It is a borderland between the temperate zone and the tropics.

“那里属于和热之间的交界地区。”

In temperate forests, the build-up of leaf litter creates rich stores of nutrients.

森林里，落叶形成的腐殖质层可以贮藏养分。

The general rule is that mild zones have relatively few languages, often spoken by many people, while hot, wet zones have lots, often spoken by small numbers.

大致的分布规律是，地区的语言相对较少，通常使用人数较多，而热潮湿地区有很多语言，通常使用人数较少。

So in temperate climates, fewer mosquitoes end up carrying the infectious form of the parasite than in the tropics, and, as a result, eradicating malaria has just been easier to do in temperate places.

所以地区，相比较热地区，携这种感染期寄生虫的蚊子更少，因此，地区根除疟疾更容易些。

Our airborne programme and our satellite programme have been deployed to understand how our rainforests are changing, how temperate forests are changing, African savannahs and even tropical coral reefs.

通过部署空中项目和星项目，我们得以了解热雨林的演变，森林的演变，非洲大、至是热珊瑚礁的演变。

BILL WEIR, CNN CLIMATE CORRESPONDENT: Behold the Great Bear rainforest, stretching for 250 miles of beautiful solitude along the coast of British Columbia as part of the largest intact coastal temperate rainforest in the world.

比尔·韦尔，CNN 气象记者：看看大熊雨林，沿着不列颠哥伦比亚省海岸绵延250英里的美丽孤独风景，作为世界上最大的完整沿海雨林的一部分。

Most artistic impressions of dinosaurs picture them in lush forests or on vast temperate savannahs.

大多数关于恐龙的艺术印象都是茂密的森林或广阔的上。

South Korea lies in the temperate zone and has four seasons.

韩国地处，四季分明。

Moderate, polar, dry, and tropical are four groups you see.

，寒，干旱，热气候你见到的四种。

Suddenly there were two classes of geese, thanks to the Home for Honkers philosophy: the migratory ones, also new temperate nesting geese, resident geese, that stayed in a place year round.

突然间，由于《雁的故乡》的理念，出现了两种类型的鹅: 迁徙的，也就是新的筑巢的鹅，常驻的鹅，它们一年到头都呆一个地方。

And they're very different than a North American temperate forest.

它们与北美的森林有很大的不同。

Whale sharks can be found in warm and tropical waters around the world.

鲸鲨分布世界热和水域。

There are also temperate rainforests in the Pacific Northwest in the United States.

美国西北部太平洋沿岸也有雨林。

It can be found just about everywhere throughout the world's temperate and tropical seas, but it is most often found along the coast, rather than the open sea.

世界上的和热海域几乎到处都能找到它们，但它们最常出现沿海地区，而不是公海。

Take the trees of the temperate forest biome.

以森林生物群系的树木为例。

Winn took Mon-El on a jaunt through the city last night.

昨晚蒙·艾尔去都市夜游了。

It may be that tropical birds, which face more intense competition for food and nesting sites than temperate ones do because the tropics have more species, form more stable and collaborative pair-bonds than do temperate birds.

这可能是热鸟类形成了更稳定更协作的一夫一妻制，因为热有更多物种，热鸟类比鸟类存更激烈的食物竞争和巢穴竞争。

High enough to lift them out of the tropical environment that the lands would otherwise be in down at lower elevations and into a more temperate biome with cooler temperatures and less humidity.

这里的海拔高度足以让它们脱离热环境，否则这些土地就会处于较低海拔地区，变成度较低、湿度较小的生物群落区。

However, observational work carried out in temperate deciduous forests by Kristina Anderson-Teixeira at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia, and her colleagues found no sign of this happening.

然而，弗吉尼亚州皇家前线史密森保护生物研究所的克里斯蒂娜·安德森·特谢拉和她的同事落叶林进行观察工作时，并没有发现这种情况发生的迹象。

In less than half a square kilometer in the Amazon, we can find as many tree species as we find in four million square kilometers of temperate forest.

不到半平方公里的亚马逊森林里我们能找到的树种和 400 万平方公里森林里找到的物种一样多。