Tropical forests are highly productive ecosystems accounting for nearly half of the global forest carbon sink. If tropical forests can no longer remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the ...

In 1978, renowned ecologist Dan Janzen jumped into a ravine in Costa Rica, broke three ribs, and spent the first month of the ...

Tropical forests are highly diverse ecosystems located within 23.5º N or S of the equator in Asia, ... whereas seasonal or dry tropical forests receive less rain and have a distinct dry season.

However, the ancient ecosystem likely hosted more deciduous plants than do modern tropical forests. The vertebrate fossils the researchers analyzed were consistent with apes, pythons, and rodents ...

Tropical forests are restricted to the small land area between the latitudes 22.5° North and 22.5° South of the ... This realm is increasingly dry and seasonal when compared to the other realms.

Evidence from this site indicates that it was likely a relatively closed tropical seasonal forest environment between 19 and 20 million years ago. (Image credit: John Kingston) Artistic rendering of ...

Map of current and historical evergreen and seasonal tropical forest extent. Lewis et al. Heavily logged and degraded forest is then often slated for conversion to agricultural plantations.

Why tropical forests are so ecologically diverse The population of a tropical tree increases mostly in places where it is rare Date: October 15, 2018 ...

Tropical seasonal forest of southern Yunnan, China “The tropical rainforest in southern Yunnan is a type of tropical Asian rainforest that occurs really at the climatic limits of tropical ...