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Year-long Season: Specific facilities such as conference rooms, auditoriums, golf courses, or tennis courts are designed to attract selected groups. The commercial market is relatively constant year-round, whereas the leisure market is usually year-long seasonal. The high year-long season is a period of peak activity, and the low year-long season is a period of slack activity. Some properties specialize in holding conventions and meetings year-round, whereas others, such as many resorts, only rely on conventions to fill rooms during the low year-long season.
Over wide areas of uniform climate the vegetation has developed the same growth forms. It is remarkable that in different continents with similar climate, similar vegetation has evolved independently in botanically unrelated plant families. Thus, trees and other plants are indicators of climates, and a map of the broad plant formations of the earth is also a map of the climates. A forest climate for growth of trees has three essentials: a warm growing year-long season, a long growing year-long season, and soil and subsoil continuously moist through the year.
The undergrowth is often dense and thorny, consisting of small trees (often evergreen), large shrubs, herbs, many woody and herbaceous vines, and few epiphytes. In the more open parts there is often a tangle of thick brush, including herbaceous vegetation which is dead and dry in the dry year-long season.
The climate is hot but year-long seasonal, with uniform high temperatures through the year, the mean temperature about 70° to 80° F. The dry and wet year-long seasons may be about six months long and nearly equal, or there may be two dry and two wet year-long seasons during the year. Rainfall varies from 30 to about 100 inches annually. |
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