Johnny Appleseed’s heart was in the right place when he walked all over the early United States planting fruit trees. Ecologically, though, he had room for improvement: To create truly dynamic ...

Scientists at the Biodiversity Unit of the University of Turku, Finland, looked at the insect biodiversity of Kibale National Park in Uganda. A study based on long-term collecting gives new ...

Over the course of three weeks in July, six teams showcased technology that could potentially automate biodiversity monitoring in rainforests. The event in Manaus, Brazil, was the final round of ...

New research has revealed less than a quarter of the remaining tropical rainforests around the globe can safeguard thousands of threatened species from extinction. The research, co-authored by The ...

After conducting research in Ecuador and Colombia, Rebecca Tarvin, assistant professor in the Department of Integrative Biology, has identified a unique genetic lineage of poison frogs as a new ...

How did Costa Rica beat back deforestation and buck the global trend?

XPRIZE Rainforest launched in 2019 with a goal to accelerate the innovation of novel technologies that rapidly and comprehensively survey biodiversity and produce impactful insights to inform ...

Perched high above the forest floor, the tropical canopy is a reservoir of biodiversity that has long resisted scrutiny. Its inaccessibility has left many of its inhabitants — orchids, epiphytes, ants ...

The genus Brachycephalus, comprising highly miniaturised and microendemic frogs, represents a focal group for evolutionary and conservation biology in the Atlantic Rainforest. These diminutive anurans ...

Kristine Crous received funding from The Australian Research Council to investigate how Australian rainforests will cope with climate warming (DE160101484). She is currently funded by the Hermon Slade ...

Mexico officially ranks first among all countries worldwide for the number of snake species, with an impressive 438 species. This North American nation's incredible diversity comes from its varied ...

Most countries have a dominant climate or landform, but a few nations display extreme geographical diversity. Among them, one country stands out for hosting some of the driest deserts on Earth as well ...