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 ...

Scientists have long been puzzled by the immense diversity of tropical rainforests, but a new study finds that both light and height are key to plant diversity. Diversity in the tropics isn’t ...

The research found that fungi regulate diversity in rainforests by making ... It helps to explain why tropical rainforests are so much more diverse than forests in temperate countries.

Tropical rainforests are found near the equator ... mammals and reptiles in addition to insects), the sheer density and diversity of rainforest plants is just as impressive as the megafauna.

When the researchers removed the fungi, both the numbers and diversity of arthropods dropped ... numbers and types of arthropods in tropical rainforests is in some way connected to the biological ...

It's the first study to sample arthropods from every part of a tropical rainforest ... Their results suggest that the diversity within a relatively small area can give them a good idea about ...

The rainforest and its ... a place known for its rich animal diversity, and which has attracted biologists for decades. The team ventured into the dense tropical forest armed with 24 cotton ...

Tropical trees in Australia's rainforests have been dying at double ... let alone a trend consistent across the diversity of species and sites we studied. A sustained doubling of mortality risk ...

“To protect the remaining high-integrity tropical rainforests, global coordination ... essential to meeting the Convention on Biological Diversity’s 2030 targets and to averting further ...

This swath of tropical rainforest, which forms part of the upper ... is one of several studies that we are carrying out to reveal the immense diversity of these animals in the Ecuadorian Amazon ...