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nieves perpetuas -rastrojo - sabana


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22:34 Mar 14, 2010
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Forestry / Wood / Timber / Ecosystem in Colombia.
Spanish term or phrase: nieves perpetuas -rastrojo - sabana
ecosystemas en Colombia. espanol de Colombia
CarollB
Local time: 11:11


Summary of answers provided
4 +1permanent snow pack - stubble - savannah
Muriel Vasconcellos
4ice cap - stubble - savanna(h)
traductorchile
4permanent snows, stubble gronunds - savanna
Leonardo Lamarche


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20 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
permanent snows, stubble gronunds - savanna


Explanation:
Mis sugerencias.

Leonardo Lamarche
Venezuela
Local time: 11:41
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4
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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
ice cap - stubble - savanna(h)


Explanation:
eso

traductorchile
Chile
Local time: 12:11
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Muriel Vasconcellos: Snow is not the same as ice.
28 mins
  -> You are right, permanent snow ends up being an ice cap
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48 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
permanent snow pack - stubble - savannah


Explanation:
The Spanish term "nieves perpetuas" is a little misleading, because an ecosystem is characterized more by a consistent physical condition on the ground than by a weather pattern.

It would have helped to consider these terms separately because stubble in itself is just a characteristic of an ecosystem.

Note, for example:
Sampling was conducted by establishing transects within the ecosystem types being assessed and systematically collecting stubble height measurements at ...
www.env.gov.bc.ca/wld/.../range compliance report 2003.pdf

Examples of "permanent snow pack" in the context of ecosystems:

In recent decades, dark particulate dust has fallen in great concentrations across all ecosystems around the earth including areas of permanent snow pack. ...
xenoliths.blogspot.com/2009_07_01_archive.html

Jan 9, 2010 ... The limits of glaciation in the ice age are generally consistent with the limits of permanent snow pack during the winters of today. ...
moneyrunner.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-global-ice-age.html

relatively abrupt melting of glaciers and permanent snow pack adds ..... expected changes of net ecosystem productivity are more complicated since warmer ...
www.ipcc-wg2.gov/AR4/FOD/Ch12_FOD.pdf

... when Mount Rainier was largely draped in ice and permanent snow pack, people lived in the plains and .... The park is part of a complex ecosystem. ...
www.adventure-crew.com/.../mount-rainier-national-park-page...

Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 09:11
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 20

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jenni Lukac
11 hrs
  -> Thanks, Jenni!
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