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The plants are native to tropical and to some temperate areas of the Old World.
Certain tropical sea anemones (class Anthozoa) may be a metre in diameter, and some temperate ones are nearly that tall.
In some temperate countries, the number of people dying in the winter from cold could outnumber the increased summer deaths, but the evidence for this is limited.
It appears, then, that astronomical observation for calendrical purposes was a widespread practice in some temperate countries three to four millennia ago.
Despite the overall high rates of productivity and biomass in tropical rainforests, the growth rates of their timber trees are not unusually fast; in fact, some temperate trees and many smaller herbaceous plants grow more rapidly.
The IPCC still says that in some temperate countries there might be fewer deaths from cold exposure, but overall, the report says, "it is expected that these benefits will be outweighed by the negative health effects of rising temperatures worldwide, especially in developing countries".
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For some species, a brief period of cold storage may be necessary for the seeds to germinate; this stratification treatment is needed to satisfy the dormancy requirement of some temperate-zone species.
This should be compared with some temperate-zone species which have expanded over thousands of kilometers after the last glacial maximum.
An exception to this trend is observed in some temperate-zone species with generalist habitat requirements and high mobility, like large carnivores that occur across a wide habitat and climatic gradient.
Birds are particularly mobile, and some of temperate affinity found their way to equatorial peaks; for example, in the mountains of New Guinea are found pipits and thrushes that have no near relatives in the adjacent tropical lowlands.
During the rapid climatic fluctuations of the past two million years in which conditions alternated between dry, cold glacial states the ice ages of some northern temperate regions and warmer, moister interglacial intervals, tree species of temperate forests had to migrate repeatedly to remain within climates suitable for their survival.
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