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Ecology and Nutrition: An Observation in the Humid Tropics

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Nutritional Biochemistry and Pathology

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For the purposes of this paper, the definition of “Tropics” is the following: the rigorously tropical climate is the rainy one of the jungles, with an annual average temperature of 21° C (±70° F) and an elevated pluviometric index1. Grographically, the tropics are in the band situated between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, which are parallel to the Equator, at a distance of 26° on either side. The tropical climates are divided into: 1) humid, that of the jungle; 2) semi-arid, of the fertile lands; 3) arid, that of the deserts; and 4) semi-arid, of the savannahs2.

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  1. Depto. Nutrição CCSUFPe, Cidade Universitária, 50.000, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

    Nelson Chaves

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  1. Brazilian Nutrition Society, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Walter Santos , Nabuco Lopes , J. J. Barbosa  & Dagoberto Chaves , ,  & 

  2. National Food and Nutrition Institute and Associação Brasiliense de Nutrologia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    José Carlos Valente

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Chaves, N. (1980). Ecology and Nutrition: An Observation in the Humid Tropics. In: Santos, W., Lopes, N., Barbosa, J.J., Chaves, D., Valente, J.C. (eds) Nutritional Biochemistry and Pathology. Nutrition and Food Science, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1349-7_88

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