The global distribution of the tropical rainforest can be broken into four continental regions, realms or biomes: the Ethiopian or Afrotropical rainforest, the Australasian or Australian ...

Found on every continent except Antarctica, rainforests are ecosystems filled with mostly evergreen trees that typically receive high amounts of rainfall. Tropical rainforests are found near the ...

The results were used as measures of the distribution of energy and ... "Ecological and Socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems EFForTS." ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Tropical rainforests lie along the equator, mainly between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. Rainforests have ...

We are now in the middle of the sixth mass extinction, caused by our emergence as a planet-shaping force. Species are going extinct far faster than the average natural rate of loss. In response ...

Researchers have clarified the evolutionary history of a previously poorly known group of ferns from the tropical ... Amazonian rainforests to gain a better understanding of species distribution ...

The world's tropical rainforests are still getting hit hard by deforestation. Now, scientists are finding that's having an expected impact: causing droughts. As humans change the environment ...

Tropical rainforests are vital regions for our planet. They encompass 3 billion acres (1.2 billion hectares), or around 6%, of Earth's surface area, and are home to half of the world's animal and ...

Tropical rainforests appeared to be the toughest of them all. It can be hard to find enough food in jungles, and they offer lots of places for predators to lurk. “You can’t see what to hunt, ...

Researchers have clarified the evolutionary history of a previously poorly known group of ferns from the tropical ... Amazonian rainforests to gain a better understanding of species distribution ...