A 17-year-long study in forests of the Barro Colorado Natural Monument determined that the nutrients in leaf litter help promote tree growth in otherwise infertile tropical forest soils.

But their modeling warns that if nothing is done to curb global warming, that percentage will increase in the future, and rampant leaf death and tree loss could possibly occur if tropical forests ...

The sites were analyzed based on 12 attributes of tropical forests such as density of the forest, soil nutrient contents, leaf area, and tree diameter.

Tropical forests can withstand around 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 Fahrenheit) of additional global warming before they reach a tipping point in terms of their ability to photosynthesize, according to ...

The decline in the world’s rainforests, particularly in the Amazon, Congo Basin and Indonesia, is responsible for an estimated third of global CO2 emissions, so an agreement by 134 leaders to ...

Together those experiments helped the team behind the new study characterize the temperature at which photosynthesis generally stops in a tropical tree’s leaf: around 46.7 degrees Celsius.

Alan P. Smith, Ecology of a Leaf Color Polymorphism in a Tropical Forest Species: Habitat Segregation and Herbivory, Oecologia, Vol. 69, No. 2 (1986), pp. 283-287 ...

Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Pittsburgh is presenting “Tropical Forest Panama,” which immerses visitors in the nature, culture and interconnectedness of the Panamanian forest system.