A worldwide survey has revealed many differences between tropical plants and those in cooler regions, and is helping botanists understand how they will deal with climate change.
... . The study suggests that a quick screen for insects with warning coloration on tropical plants may increase the efficiency of the search for compounds active against cancer and tropical parasitic ...
... upward.
In contrast, surprisingly little attention has been given to the effects of warming climate on tropical plants and animals. Colwell's article in Science magazine this week may change that. ...
... at the University of Southern Illinois in Carbondale, began the daunting task of describing seedling stages of tropical plants 25 years ago at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.
... 's last living lakes. The samples revealed long-held secrets of how desert-friendly species replaced tropical plants and animals as monsoon rains retreated farther south into the ...
... risk may come with specialization. The Seychelles flies feed only on the fruit of the morinda tree, a tropical plant that produces year round, but is toxic to other fruit flies, giving this single ...
... of the Earth's fauna, including butterflies, primates, birds, bats, and losses of tropical plants will often have disastrous consequences for such species. Because of the interconnectedness of the ...
... optimum, and has profound implications for understanding the effect of current global warming on tropical plants," said Jaramillo.
Evolution has produced a variety of gigantic animals over the last ...
... Pacific Coast of South America) and in adjacent Central America.
Cannatella says many other tropical plants and animals in the Amazon may share this more complex geographical and temporal history ...
... health of their mutualism. "When you look at a healthy tropical plant, you think you're ... fungal species growing inside, some of which may protect the plant by excluding pathogens," explains Sunshine Van ...
... the semester, an experimental group of students attended classes in rooms that contained an assortment of tropical plants. The control group of students attended class in rooms with no plants.
At ...
