Guanacaste is biologically similar to Veracruz, Janzen says — filled with tropical dry forests. The parallels brought him to Costa Rica in 1963 to research interactions between plants and animals.

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 ...

Tropical dry forests — yes, sounds like a contradiction — receive less rainfall. They’re located on lower elevations and in parts of Costa Rica that are drier, mainly in the Nicoya and ...

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 ...

After the island of Madagascar drifted away from India 88 million years ago, isolating it from all other landmasses, its ...

Preserving dry land forests is very complicated in ... Also, grassy areas are notorious fire hazards during times of drought. Tropical forests worldwide include not only trees but understory ...

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Tropical forests — which include tropical rainforests ... They found that midday peaks averaged approximately 93.2 degrees during dry periods, but a small percentage surpassed 104 degrees.

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

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.

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 ...