Our knowledge of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees is limited, with detailed information available for perhaps only a few hundred of the many thousand of species that occur. Yet a good ...

The team found that composition of a tropical rainforest over time depends on how each tree species balances two different sets of trade-offs: growth versus survival (for example, one type of tree ...

The palm, which is now the rarest plant in the Eden Project’s Rainforest Biome, had previously been grown at Cambridge ...

J. Leighton Reid received a $600,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development  Program award to research ...

A tropical rainforest is made up of the following layers ... This is absorbed by plants, called ‘producers’. This energy is then passed on to the animals through the plants they eat, these ...

An observation tower overlooks a Panama rainforest where scientists from ORNL and other partners are working on the DOE Next ...

Plants, trees, and soil absorbed almost no net CO2 last year. If this continues, we're in bigger trouble than we thought.

The government is greatly understating the deforestation that the megaproject will entail, environmentalists say.

A novel method for estimating the rate of photosynthesis from land plants reveals that satellite observations—the current ...

时间来到了2050年，由于降雨的消失，青尼罗河几乎干涸，而这些降雨的源头在历史上一直来自于刚果盆地雨林贡献的大气河流。萨赫尔、非洲之角和撒哈拉北部近5亿人口如今走上了迁徙之路，以远离干旱、饥荒和水资源争夺战带来的灾难性影响，而这一切归咎于数十年前人们 ...

A group of terrestrial-breeding frogs, named Strabomantidae, call these peaks home, living most of their life on the ground ...

Gear up for a wild botanical war in Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare 3! Unleash an array of quirky plants and menacing ...