A new study leveraging 20,000 tree-ring records and nearly 150 scientists' contributions from across the globe shows that, while droughts appear to ...

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.

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.

Over the past century, the growth of tropical trees has remained minimally affected by droughts. As a result, the rate of CO2 ...

Tropical trees are only minimally affected by drought conditions, but climate change threatens to affect a fine balance ...

An international study has found tropical trees have remained minimally affected by droughts but an increase in climate change events is likely to ...

To understand the origins of tropical Asian biodiversity through time and space, you need data on dispersal and speciation (emergence of new species). Recognizing a clear knowledge gap for this ...

They then combined this tree of life with data from the analysis of two 90-million-year-old pollen fossils discovered 1,930 meters (6,332 feet) below ground in New Guinea.

Previous research has found that this can slow tree growth, and even kill trees. As a result, lianas can dramatically reduce carbon uptake and storage in tropical forests.

The data from the University of Maryland show tropical forests around the globe lost 15.8 million hectares (39 million acres) of tree cover in 2017 — an area the size of Bangladesh. That makes ...