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Earth’s tropical environment is geographically defined as the region of the middle of the Earth lying between the latitudes of the Tropic of Cancer, North latitude 23.5°, and the Tropic of Capricorn, South latitude 23.5°, including the equator (Fig. 1).
Tropical environment, tropics comprise Australia and Oceania – Small Island Oceanic States, South East Asia, South Asia, Northern Africa and Middle East, Central and South Africa, South America, Caribbean, and Central America. Tropics, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropics. Accessed on 25 Dec 2017
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Ahmad, R. (2018). Tropical Environments. In: Bobrowsky, P., Marker, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Engineering Geology. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12127-7_285-1
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