Tropical是什么意思？

Predictions of the collapse of the tropical rain forests have been around for years.

"with my institution and teaching load,I don't have postdocs and grad students," says Terry McGlynn, a tropical biologist at California State University, Dominguez hills.

It says tropical storms formerly claimed dozens, if not hundreds of lives, each year, in Cuba.

These include droughts, floods, windstorms, strong tropical winds and wildfires.

Through careful preparation, the death toll from a super tropical storm in November 2007 was less than 3, 500.