The forest floor layer is even darker, and few plants grow there. The most active part of the rainforest is the canopy layer, which is the 20 or so feet of treetops that essentially form the roof ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. All tropical rainforests have similar characteristics including climate ...

A rainforest is typically made up of four key layers: emergent, upper canopy, understory, and forest floor. In the top emergent layer, trees as tall as 200 feet (60 meters) grow far apart and tall ...

For flying lemurs, the rainforest canopy is more than just a home—it’s a complex network of highways. The dense upper layers of the forest connect trees like bridges, creating safe passage for ...

Rainforests have four main layers: the emergent, the canopy, the under canopy and the forest floor. There are many causes of rainforest deforestation, which leads to loss of habitats, soil erosion ...

A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser ...

The new study, published June 3 in the journal Nature Climate Change, used a microclimate model to examine temperatures beneath the rainforest canopy across the global tropics. This showed that ...