I built a giant paludarium jungle, a living ecosystem featuring shrimp, vampire crabs, and fish. This project showcases the complete evolution of a large DIY paludarium constructed from recycled ...

Tropical forests are experiencing critical heat thresholds impacting photosynthesis. Millions of hectares already exceed ...

Tropical forests in the Democratic Republic of Congo show signs of recovery from deforestation. Structural complexity returns ...

The Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS) is a global network of forest research plots that study tropical and temperate forest function and diversity. The first plot was established on Barro ...

Tropical forests draw down and store large quantities of CO₂ from the atmosphere. The Amazon rainforest in South America, for ...

The air moving above the forest carries valuable information about how trees absorb carbon, and what may happen in the future as global temperatures rise Vanessa Crooks The forest breathes! There is a ...

Tropical forests account for more than 50% of the global terrestrial carbon sink, but climate change threatens to alter the carbon balance of these ecosystems. "These findings imply that both warming ...

A NASA plane came to Panama to acquire aerial images to inform scientists about the diversity of tropical ecosystems. At the same time, researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute ...

Dr. Zaiton Samdin is an Associate Professor in the School of Business and Economics, Universiti Putra Malaysia, and currently a Deputy Director, Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products ...

Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) underpins the fertility and resilience of tropical forests by converting atmospheric N₂ into plant-available forms. In these ecosystems, both symbiotic associations ...

Tropical forest plant roots have not received as much research attention as aboveground vegetation. This knowledge gap affects our understanding of how rainforests adapt to change, including their ...

A research team has carried out the most comprehensive assessment to date of how logging and conversion to oil palm plantations affect tropical forest ecosystems. The results demonstrate that logging ...