A healthy tropical rainforest is the world's most spectacular example of a living, functioning ecosystem and the ultimate example of biodiversity. Just How Diverse are Tropical Rainforests?

Each tropical rainforest canopy layer harbors its own unique plant and animal species interacting with the ecosystem around them. The primary tropical rainforest is divided into at least five ...

researchers from the Boyce Thompson Institute took on a project that many thought was impossible -- restoring a tropical rainforest ecosystem. When the researchers planted worn-out cattle fields ...

Every day, new areas of rainforests are converted into plantations, drastically changing tropical ... tropical ecosystems. The researchers demonstrate that the conversion of rainforest into ...

Tropical rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate, and according to a bleak new report by the non-governmental organization Rainforest ... and the remaining ecosystems being put "closer ...

Trekking through the Amazon rainforest is something that’s high up on many travellers’ ‘to do’ lists. But this is not the only tropical ... is from the series Ecosystems and Biomes.

little is known about how drought-mediated changes to their communities affect tropical rainforest ecosystems during periods of environmental stress. By suppressing termite activity in sections of ...

"This transformation is steadily enhancing the diversity, stability, and sustainability of the tropical rainforest ecosystem," he said. Hainan province has positioned the national park as one of ...

Tropical forests have an important role in the carbon cycle, absorbing more carbon from the atmosphere than any other ecosystem, and acting as key modulators of the global climate. Despite being ...