Though the root biomass of tropical rainforest trees is concentrated in the upper soil layers, soil water uptake by deep roots has been shown to contribute to tree transpiration. A precise evaluation ...

The tropical forests of the world act as important "time capsules" of human activity going back hundreds of years, according to a team of researchers. For a review paper published in the journal ...

Journal of Tropical Ecology, Vol. 12, No. 6 (Nov., 1996), pp. 843-851 (9 pages) Clusters of four circular forest plots, 0 2 ha in total area, were inventoried for canopy tree (⩾30 cm gbh) and ...

A tropical rainforest biome climate is an environment found near the Earth's equator, in locations such as South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia, characterized by high temperatures and high ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Biodiversity is a term biologists and ecologists use to describe natural ...

Lucas Cernusak receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Susan Laurance receives funding from Australian Research Council. In recent years, the Great Barrier Reef off Australia’s ...