... member Institute of the Helmholtz-Association, examined tropical trees from the remote highland rain forests ... few existing annual ring chronologies from tropical rain forests worldwide. "Our time line ...
... the growth, birth and death of more than 250,000 tropical trees on Panama's Barro Colorado Island. ... Brazilian Amazon has (or had) 11,210 large tree species, and, of these, 5,308 species are classified ...
... appears in the November issue of the journal Evolution.
Symphonia globulifera is a widespread tropical tree with a history that goes back some 45 million years in Africa, said Christopher Dick, an ...
... time, some ferns also developed the ability to live on trees, sometimes without soil, as epiphytes.
By storing ... epiphytism.
So, as rain forests developed and tropical trees and vines clawed past each ...
... rôme Chave's team from the Evolution et diversité biologique laboratory has tested this method in the tropical forest where the CNRS Nouragues, French Guiana research station is located. Their study, ...
... biology who studies genetic diversity patterns in tropical tree species, Jha collected and analyzed ... birds and bats carry their seeds from "mother trees."
By performing a genetic analysis, Jha and Dick ...
Globally, tropical trees in undisturbed forest are absorbing nearly a fifth of the CO2 released by burning fossil fuels. The researchers show that remaining tropical forests remove a massive 4.8 ...
... ends up in the ocean--acidifying saltwater and making life tough for corals--and another chunk appears to be helping tropical trees grow thicker. We don't know, however, where ...
... acids from the leaves and later lay their eggs, the tree colors its leaves in red because aphids ... covered with evergreen jungles or forests composed of tropical trees. During this phase, a series of ice ...
