Is it possible to restore highly diverse rain forests? Rain forest restoration holds much promise in helping to conserve biodiversity and ecosystem services, but is not a substitute for preserving ...

A team of scientists is trying to understand how the trees of the Bobiri forest reserve in southern Ghana react to extreme ...

Being struck by lightning is something humans generally try to avoid. But for at least one tropical tree species, this ...

But this is not the only tropical rainforest with natural beauty ... Depending on the particular forest you can find alligators, jaguars, snakes and insects - such as ants and tarantulas - living ...

Satellite images from space are allowing scientists to delve deeper into the individual functions of different tropical forest canopies with new and surprising results. Understanding tree traits and ...

Tropical rainforests can be managed in the following ways to reduce deforestation. The Costa Rican government has implemented the following policies to ensure that the tropical rainforest can be ...

Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...

The research was led by Evan Gora, a forest ecologist at Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Gora studies how lightning impacts biodiversity and carbon storage in Panama's tropical forests.

To date, agricultural expansion in sub-Saharan Africa has mainly been driven by small-scale subsistence farmers. Yet since ...

In their study, the team highlights the importance of tropical forest canopies in regulating ... vegetation patterns, and ecosystem resilience, leading to a better understanding of how ecosystems ...