Science news articles about 'lowland tropical forests'

... – provides an explanation for the persistence of nitrogen-fixing plants in mature lowland tropical forest and savannas. "Working on the basis of these two hypotheses we have produced a new model, ...

Strange things are happening in the lowland tropical forests of Panama and Costa Rica. A tiny parasitic ... colleagues studied two closely related tropical social bees, Megalopta genalis and Megalopta ...

... ." The evidence corroborates a large quantity of previous research carried out in the lowland tropical forest south of Mexico by Piperno and other investigators that indicated maize spread to Panama ...