As tropical fishes colonize new habitats in temperate oceans, made available to them because of ocean warming, researchers ...

Climate change is significantly affecting forest ecosystems through rising temperatures, altered precipitation patterns, and ...

The journey starts at Baihualing Tropical Rainforest Cultural Tourism Area in Qiongzhong Li and Miao autonomous county, a gateway to Hainan's tropical wilderness.

Squamellaria plants grow special structures to host the ants they symbiotically rely on for nutrients. Distinct compartments help different ant colonies live peacefully side by side.

Butterflies that independently evolved the same wing patterns have also evolved similar eyes and brains which are fine-tuned for vision in the shifting light of tropical rainforests, according to new ...

Surumoni Project, towards an under- standing of the structure and function of a neo- tropical rain forest ecosystem with special refer- ence to its canopy. Abstract of paper presented at the First ...

Covering 424 sq km of the Osa Peninsula, a remote pocket of land in Costa Rica's far south-west, the park contains the largest area of primary tropical rainforest in Pacific Central America.

The tritium method was used to measure the transpiration of twenty trees in a tropical rainforest in the Amazon Territory of Venezuela. Transpiration rates ranged from 2·7 1 day$^ {-1}$ for small ...

Africa’s tropical belt, defined by the Guinean forests of west Africa and the Congo Basin of central Africa, is globally recognised for its astounding biodiversity. Beneath the surface of this ...

Ancient humans lived in tropical rainforests much earlier than we first thought, a new study finds. Before now, the earliest evidence of humans (Homo sapiens) living in rainforest environments ...