Sentence examples for temperate rather than from inspiring English sources

If the bonsai is native to a temperate (rather than tropical) climate, it will probably be fine in the garage, assuming the building is insulated.

Crusoe finds grapes, hares, foxes and even penguins on the island, suggesting a temperate rather than a tropical climate.

Marinella argues, then, that Aristotle was correct to conclude that women are usually, if not always, cooler than men, but she insists that women are temperate rather than cold.

The copper shark is the only member of its genus largely found in temperate rather than tropical waters, in temperatures above 12 C.

In contrast, Rosumek et al. [28] found differences between tropical and temperate systems in measures of both herbivory and reproduction, possibly because they used a dichotomous categorization of latitude (tropical v. temperate) rather than finer-scale categorical or continuous characterization of habitat.

The southern extremes of Argentina, which extend to latitude 55° S, also have predominantly temperate conditions, rather than the cold continental climate of comparable latitudes in North America.

Like humans, who mostly live in temperate zones rather than in the arctic or the tropics, he said, wild species "tend to pick the places that are just right" for them.

Unlike other members of the genus Ailanthus, it is found in temperate climates rather than the tropics.

We believe that it is the sequence of 3rd and 4th quarters which is important in demonstrating the peak in MRSA infections in temperate regions rather than just the warmest quarter of the year.

This has meant that many austral studies have focused on the effects of Pleistocene changes in aridity, in tropical or ice-free temperate regions, rather than the effects of glaciers directly (e.g., [ 16– 16]).

Another illustrative example is the Black Sea where extremely high water stratification results in a seasonal cycle similar to subtropical regions rather than to temperate ones.