Tropical forest plants regenerate either from sources from ... Janzen, D. H. "Tropical dry forest: Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica," in Handbook of Ecological Restoration ...

The dominant plants are phanerophytes - trees, lianas, and epiphytes. Tropical ... of tropical forest biomes are savannas (Figure 4), with lower yearly rainfall and longer dry seasons (Figure ...

This grows wild in Central and South America and cultivating it can be a forest-friendly ... 70% of the plants that have proven anti-cancer properties are only found in tropical rainforests. Did you ...

Satellite images from space are allowing scientists to delve deeper into the individual functions of different tropical forest canopies with new and surprising results. Understanding tree traits and ...

Cloud forests are biodiversity hot spots and crucial water sources. But climate change and deforestation are shrinking their range, new data show.

octospinosus in the tropical dry forest of Palo Verde National Park on the Pacific slope ... octospinosus foraged primarily on the leaves of herbs and other small plants, fallen leaves, fruit, flowers ...

Predicting plant trait distributions over large ... The study maps how the types of trees vary across tropical moist and dry forests, which host most of Earth's tree species.