Utah State University researchers are collaborating with other institutions to solve the ecological mysteries of seed ...

It’s hard to believe such a commonplace food as the banana could go extinct, but this reality has already happened and ...

A century of research on Barro Colorado Island has contributed to our understanding of forest ecology. Researchers from Utah ...

In tropical forests, lightning is a major ... researchers studied nearly 100 lightning events in Panama'’s Barro Colorado ...

A new study led by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and the Missouri Botanical Garden has uncovered a ...

Through a course in dendrology, the study of the taxonomy of woody plants in the absence of flowers or fruits, two experts in ...

A tropical tree species in Panama’s lowland rainforest appears to benefit from lightning strikes by surviving unscathed while ...

The almendro tree may have evolved to attract lightning, which helps clear more space for it to grow, according to new research ...

On average, each lightning hit destroyed over 2.4 tons (2 metric tons) of adjacent tree biomass and approximately 80 percent of the lianas (parasitic vines) that plagued the tonka bean canopy. As per ...

Lightning strikes may kill hundreds of millions of trees every year, but one tropical tree has evolved to benefit from the ...

Though being struck by lightning is usually bad, the tropical tree Dipteryx oleifera benefits. A strike kills other nearby trees and parasitic vines.

A Dipteryx oleifera tree just after being struck by lightning in 2019 ( top) versus two years later ( bottom ). The tree ...