and even carnivorous pitcher plants (which can digest small mammals and reptiles in addition to insects), the sheer density and diversity of rainforest plants is just as impressive as the megafauna.

The tropical rainforest is the most biodiverse biome ... Despite its reduction to equatorial regions, rainforests still offer a rich ecosystem with four distinct layers: the emergent layer ...

Tropical rainforests mainly occur inside the world's equatorial regions ... Each tropical rainforest canopy layer harbors its own unique plant and animal species interacting with the ecosystem ...

Some of the compounds in rainforest plants also are used to treat malaria ... the lands and many governments throughout the world’s equatorial regions, because of economic desperation and ...

Take the plant world: 1,000 tree species can coexist in a small equatorial area of only a ... shade is an integral part of the rainforest, as seen from this Amazonian rainforest canopy.

this is the equatorial tropics with year-round growing seasons and no winters to put a halt to plant and animal expansion. While it is true, that there are real dangers existing in the rainforest ...

Brodribb says the study is an exciting new way of looking at how rainforest plants evolved at the end ... evolution you couldn't have large [modern] equatorial rainforests because … the massive ...

Like eerie ghosts of the trees and animals driven away, thick clouds of smoke and dust rise over Wele-Nzas Province in Equatorial Guinea. More than 8,000 hectares of rainforest are under threat as ...