A healthy tropical rainforest is the world's most spectacular example of a living, functioning ecosystem and the ultimate example of biodiversity. Just How Diverse are Tropical Rainforests?

The time taken for forested tropical ecosystems to re ... rate over the entire period of forest re-establishment. Where emergent variables measured from pollen diagrams demonstrated a skewed ...

Bar diagrams depict overall value ... write that their findings can help inform tropical forest conservation measures, such as Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes, that allow for ...

ecosystem functioning, forest structure and plant biodiversity, analyzing how quickly those things recovered. Tropical forests can re-establish themselves on abandoned agricultural lands faster ...

Tropical forests degraded by logging may be far richer in animal and plant life than we thought. Only around 30 per cent of the world’s tropical forests remain pristine. Most have been used for ...

A research team led by the University of Oxford has carried out the most comprehensive assessment to date of how logging and conversion to oil palm plantations affect tropical forest ecosystems.

researchers are attempting what many thought was impossible -- restoring a tropical rain forest ecosystem. When the researchers planted worn-out cattle pastures in Costa Rica with a sampling of ...

Tropical forests have an important role in the carbon cycle, absorbing more carbon from the atmosphere than any other ecosystem, and acting as key modulators of the global climate. Despite being ...

We’ve analysed the structure, biodiversity and functioning of the tropical forest ecosystem in three areas of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Our research sites include undisturbed old growth forest ...

In an attempt to monitor the ecological condition of various streams in central Panama, researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical ... forest buffers to efficiently balance agriculture and ecosystem ...

Restoring functioning ecosystem services "Allowing larger frugivores to move freely across forest landscapes is critical for healthy tropical forest recovery," says Carolina Bello, a post-doctoral ...

A new study has uncovered that forest loss is changing weather patterns in the world’s three largest remaining tropical rainforests ... Indonesia's thriving Leuser Ecosystem.