The tropical rainforest is the most biodiverse biome on Earth ... the understory, and the forest floor. Each layer supports various habitats and life forms, from birds and mammals to insects ...

Location of the 1,568 plots, tropical forest regions, and tropical forest biome extent used in the study. Dots show the location of the plots analyzed, colored by continental region. Image ...

This biome is found east of the Mississippi ... The alternate names are tropical montane forest and cloud forest. The normal weather is mild and dry winters with mild and moist summers.

The Pantanal biome, the world’s largest tropical wetland, also saw a spike in forest loss in 2023 due to fires, which have been exacerbated by a multiyear megadrought caused in part by climate ...

Massive fires fuelled by climate change led global forest loss to smash records in 2024, according to a report issued on ...

However, the opposite was the case. Instead, those forests more used to a drier climate at the dry periphery of the tropical forest biome turned out to be most vulnerable to drought. This ...

The Amazon-PIRE project will conduct experiments and train students within Biosphere 2's tropical forest biome, pictured here. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy ...

Brazil, which holds the largest share of the world’s tropical forests, lost 2.8 million hectares, the most of any country. It ...

Brazil, which holds the largest share of the world’s tropical forests, lost 2.8 million hectares (6.9 million acres), the ...

“The Atlantic Forest is an extremely important tropical forest biome with a lot of potential for reforestation. It has also been largely overlooked from an international standpoint even though it is ...

However, the opposite was the case. Instead, those forests more used to a drier climate at the dry periphery of the tropical forest biome turned out to be most vulnerable to drought. This ...