Sustainable forest management is an important strategy for the conservation of tropical secondary forests. However, knowledge about their potential for timber production is scarce, especially in the ...

Cloud forests are strange and ghostly places — akin to coral reefs hidden high on tropical mountains. Stunted trees loom in the mist, gnarled trunks and branches crusted in moss, lichens ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Tropical forests in the Americas are not adapting quickly enough to climate change, threatening their long-term resilience. While some tree species thrive due to ...

Satellite images from space are allowing scientists to delve deeper into the individual functions of different tropical forest canopies with new and surprising results. Understanding tree traits ...

New research led by Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology scientists challenges conventional ideas about the habitability of ancient tropical forests and suggests that West Africa may have been an ...

In this study, we investigated Chl across 823 plant species from nine forests, extending from tropical forests to cold-temperate forests in eastern China. Using these data, we explored variation in ...