Term Information

Accession
PECO:0007061
Name
tropical region exposure
Ontology
plant_experimental_conditions_ontology
Synonyms
tropical region treatment (narrow)
Alternate IDs
EO:0007061
Definition
An exposure involving growth of a plant in the geographical region of the Earth limited in latitude by the two tropics, the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, and thus centered on the equator. Source: Gramene:pankaj_jaiswal
Comment
This area lies approximately between 23.5 N latitude and 23.5 S latitude, and includes all the parts of the Earth where the sun reaches a point directly overhead at least once during the solar year (north of the Tropic of Cancer and south of the Tropic of Capricorn the sun never reaches an azimuth of 90 or directly overhead).
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Parents of tropical region exposure (PECO:0007061)
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tropical region exposure [is_a relation] is_a  ecological environment exposure (PECO:0007064)

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