Widening the Road in a Tropical Country
This photo was taken in 2009 after a mountain road had been widened. The small layer of soil supporting the diverse tropical rainforest is observable. The road was widened from a single car road to a road that could easily handle two-way traffic and up to three cars in some areas. One can see a single lane in the right of the photo. One of the streams is down the mountain on the right side of the photo.
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| Temporal and geographic description | 2009, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies |
| Is Part Of | Degradation of a Tropical Stream |
| Collection Link | http://esa.org/ecoed/folders/0253/degradationofatropicalstream |
| Ecological Core Concept | |
| Drought & Water-Ecosystem Services Collection | Off |
| Conservation Targets Under Global Change Collection | Off |
| Big Data Collection | Off |
| Editor's Choice | No |
| Audience | |
| Pedagogical Use Description | Can be used as part of a series of photographs to show the increased level of sediment within the streams after road construction. Can also be used to show the soil structure underneath a tropical rainforest. |
| Keywords | Tropical rainforest, Tropical streams, Human Impact |
| Life science discipline (subject) | |
| Primary Author Controlled Name | |
| Primary Author Affiliation | Cornell University Department of Entomology Ithaca, NY 14853 |
| Primary Author email | stieha@hotmail.com |
| Secondary Author Name(s) | D. Nicholas McLetchie |
| Secondary Author Affiliation(s) | University of Kentucky Department of Biology Lexington, KY 40506 |
| Submitter Name | Christopher Stieha |
| Submitter Email | stieha@hotmail.com |
| Rights | CC-NC-SA |
| Reviewer A | Unknown |
| Reviewer B | Unknown |
| Date Of Record Submission | 2012-09-11 |
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