air-ground

Air-ground it's a adjective used in the military field to qualify the operations carried out with the combined use of ground forces and air forces. Units made up of these two forces are also called air-ground units.

The United States Marine Corps, which belongs to the Armed forces of said country, is usually organized in Air-Ground Task Forces. This type of organization is made up of ground units and air units led by the same commander, who is assigned a particular mission.

Is Air-Ground Task Force It is made up of a Command Element (in charge of the direction of it), a Air Combat Element (consisting of airplanes, helicopters, and the personnel who operate and maintain them), a Land Combat Element (which includes artillery, tanks and infantry units) and a Combat Logistics Element (doctors, transport, communications units, etc.).

The notion of air-ground also appears in the context of the biology and of the botany. The air-ground plantsIn this framework, they are those that can be attached to the stem of other plants or to another support. In this way, while they have their roots buried in the ground, they also grow at the aerial level.

Is named air-ground environment, finally, to the one who houses animals capable of developing both on the earth's surface and in the air. The environments that constitute the habitat of animals such as hawks or eagles can be referred to as air-ground environments.

With regard to the latter, it must be established that air-ground environments can be divided or classified into three different groups if the different physical conditions that occur in them are taken as a criterion:
-The jungle areas, where there are trees that can exceed 50 meters in height, extensive foliage, moist soil and a great diversity of animals.
-The polar areas, which have particularities such as being the scene of common snow storms and where the most common temperatures are below zero. As far as animals are concerned, it can be noted that some mammals have the particularity of having certain systems in their body that prevent their blood from freezing, that is, their blood flow is correct.
-The arid areas. These are identified because they have high temperatures during the day and cool at night, rainfall is very scarce and there is little water in what is the ground. All this without forgetting that there are animal species that protect themselves from the sun in burrows under the ground and that others, such as reptiles, have covers that allow them to conserve as much water as possible.

As a general rule, air-ground animals are vertebrates, they can feed on both meat and plant species and can fly, jump or glide as well as move around the branches. However, there are also those that have the ability to crawl and then, thanks to that, climb the trees.