A new lawsuit asks Colombia to recognize that jaguars, military macaws and the nation’s tropical dry forest have legal rights to “life, health and integrity.” The case is the latest in the ...

The air moving above the forest carries valuable information about how trees absorb carbon, and what may happen in the future ...

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moving through tropical rainforests and tropical dry forests ... A team of ecologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) are leading an international initiative to investigate the decline of ...

In the forests of Madagascar, small lizards do more than sunbathe on rocks or snap at insects. In fact, they may be shaping ...

"Tropical plants produce a huge diversity of ... diversity of tree species and leaf metabolites in wet and seasonally dry forest plots sampled at various altitudes ranging from approximately ...

The alternate names are tropical montane forest and cloud forest. The normal weather is mild and dry winters with mild and moist summers. There are a wide variety of species, many of them unique.

Tropical deforestation hit a new high in 2024, fueled by Amazon wildfires and expanding agriculture. Scientists warn the ...

but fewer rainy days could also have major implications for tropical ecosystems and species distributions on a more fundamental level. "Think of a closed canopy rainforest. If it gets too dry ...

The property represents centres of endemism in the dry tropical and subtropical biomes of Madagascar with its western dry forests and south-western dry thorny forests and thickets that have evolved in ...

A few months ago, I had a whole day available to hike several kilometers through the tropical dry forest of Guanacaste on a series of trails that I hadn’t fully explored before and find locations for ...