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. The

Tropical forests hold most of Earth’s biodiversity and a higher concentration of threatened mammals than other biomes. This study uses a standardized pan-tropical dataset of 239 mammal species from 37 forests across 3 continents to provide evidence of selective…

Tropical forests not keeping up with climate change









A huge study analysing 40 years of data has found tropical forests are not adapting fast enough to climate change, leading to fears over

A new study coauthored by Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies ecologist Sarah Batterman estimates that if recovering tropical forests had enough nitrogen in their soils, they might absorb up to an additional 820 million metric tons of carbon dioxide each…

Understanding how close tropical tree species are to critical temperature thresholds
that might impede photosynthetic activity is vital in a world ...