Latin American countries lose 4% of dry forests in 9 years. Click image to enlarge. Countries across Latin America lost 78,000 square kilometers of subtropical and tropical dry broadleaf forests ...

In 1978, renowned ecologist Dan Janzen jumped into a ravine in Costa Rica, broke three ribs, and spent the first month of the rainy season watching the tropical dry forest from inside a shack. At ...

Tropical and subtropical forest regions with lower rainfall are home to tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests and tropical and subtropical coniferous forests.

Tropical rainforests are, unsurprisingly, shown to be among the most species-rich areas on earth. Indeed, Borneo's lowland rainforest is the most diverse of all, with around 10,000 plant species.

Tropical and Sub-tropical Broadleaf Forests: ... Forest types include subtropical dry evergreen, northern dry mixed deciduous forests, moist mixed deciduous forests, ...

Tropical rainforests are, unsurprisingly, shown to be among the most species-rich areas on earth. Indeed, Borneo's lowland rainforest is the most diverse of all, with around 10,000 plant species.

Red-eyed treefrogs were among the species assessed in the study Despite having protected status, the biodiversity in a large number of tropical forests is still continuing to decline, a study has ...

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“Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests will occupy about 23 per cent of the area currently covered by deserts and xeric shrub-lands, and 5 per cent of the area of tropical and ...

Despite having protected status, the biodiversity in a large number of tropical forests is still continuing to decline, a study suggests.