Rainforest trees function as biological water pumps, drawing moisture from deep soil layers and releasing it into the atmosphere. 3% of total rainfall. This process remains remarkably stable even ...

A tropical rainforest biome climate is an environment found near the Earth's equator, in locations such as South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia, characterized by high temperatures and high ...

Researchers have found almost identical patterns of tree diversity across the world's tropical forests. The study of over one million trees across 1,568 locations found that just 2.2% of tree species ...

Tropical trees in Australia's rainforests have been dying at double the previous rate since the 1980s, seemingly because of climate impacts, according to the findings of a long-term international ...

A group of researchers led by Brazilians has used an innovative model to map gaps in the Amazon rainforest and identify factors that contribute to tree mortality. Water stress, soil fertility, and ...

Journal of Tropical Ecology, Vol. 12, No. 6 (Nov., 1996), pp. 843-851 (9 pages) Clusters of four circular forest plots, 0 2 ha in total area, were inventoried for canopy tree (⩾30 cm gbh) and ...

image: Researchers from the University of Tsukuba have found that Shorea parvifolia, a tropical rainforest tree species widely distributed through Southeast Asia, has had a recent migration to Borneo ...

In Panama’s tropical forests, trees are quietly rewriting the rules of survival. Faced with longer, harsher dry spells, they ...

Lucas Cernusak receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Susan Laurance receives funding from Australian Research Council. In recent years, the Great Barrier Reef off Australia’s ...