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A study provides insights into how energy flows in the food webs that connect soil- and canopy-dwelling organisms in tropical ecosystems with high biodiversity. When rainforest is converted to ...

Plantations, by contrast, had a very different energy distribution: food webs in canopies ... "Ecological and Socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems EFForTS." ...

Tropical forests can't recover naturally without fruit-eating birds Date: April 15, 2024 Source: ETH Zurich Summary: Natural forest regeneration is hailed as a cost-effective way to restore ...

An area of tropical forest the size of Switzerland was lost ... driven primarily by growing global demand for food, fuel, and fiber. Climate change impacts, including severe fires and new vectors ...

Planting trees on deforested lands in Panama. Jorge Aleman/Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

Satellite imagery shows that the loss of tropical forests over the past year has doubled compared to 2023, with half of it attributable to forest fires.

Fruit eating birds play a vital role in forest ecosystems, especially in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. Wild birds can increase carbon potential in regenerating tropical forests by up to 38 percent.

Tropical forests have shown improvement in primary forest loss, with a 9 percent decline compared to 2023. Brazil and Colombia saw reductions in forest loss, attributed to conservation policies ...