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The top-line findings of a massive analysis of the growth rate of more than 20,000 tropical trees in more than 30 countries ...
Features » Plant tropical Asian fruit trees and experience a vicarious visit to the Old World Sunday, February 06, 2022 12:05 am The durian fruit is loved by some and disliked by others.
Over the past century, the growth of tropical trees has remained minimally affected by droughts. As a result, the rate of CO2 ...
Features » Plant tropical Asian fruit trees and experience the old world Sunday, August 23, 2020 12:05 am This 20-pound jackfruit was produced by a 5-year-old tree in North Kona.
Tropical trees are only minimally affected by drought conditions, but climate change threatens to affect a fine balance ...
The scientists estimate that just 1,053 species account for half of the planet's 800 billion tropical forest trees. The other half are comprised of 46,000 tree species.
Tropical forests are often made up of a diverse range of trees, with large spaces between those of the same species, which probably helps to protect them against pests, such as insects and fungal ...
An international study has found tropical trees have remained minimally affected by droughts but an increase in climate change events is likely to ...
Leaf Fossil Study Reveals Borneo's Rainforest Trees 4 Million Years Old Currently, around 89% of the 460 Asian dipterocarp species have "near threatened" status, while 57% are labelled as ...
Bangkok, Thailand – WWF and TRAFFIC today hailed the success of Indonesia's proposal to list ramin – a tropical hardwood that is found in Asian rainforests, and becoming increasingly rare – in CITES ...
Wildlife disturbances as a source of conspecific negative density dependent mortality in tropical trees. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288 (1946), 20210001. doi: 10.31219/osf.io/4wftu ...