The Allpahuayo-Mishana National Reserve lies 15 miles from the northern Peruvian city of Iquitos and is host to 143,500 acres ...

but is not a substitute for preserving intact forest. Aa Aa Aa Tropical forests are highly diverse ecosystems located within 23.5º N or S of the equator in Asia, Oceania, Africa, and Central and ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) NASA's GEDI LiDAR technology on the International Space Station has provided detailed insights into the impact of climate change on tropical forest canopies. The ...

STOCK IMAGE/Getty Images In a typical lightning strike in a tropical forest, the lightning attaches directly to a large-canopy tree and the electrical current moves through air gaps, branches or ...

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.

The team plans to study the ecological roles and functions of insect species to understand how changing populations will impact tropical forest ecosystems. They suspect that the important ...

GEDI—pronounced "Jedi"—"can tell us the vertical structure of the forest canopy" such as leaf density, said Liu. "Our study demonstrates that climate, topography, and soil properties account ...