On a tropical island in the Pacific, one of the world’s most endangered ecosystems is making a comeback. “At the time, we did not know what the dry forest was,” recalls Claude Metzdorf, a livestock ...

In the pantheon of endangered ecosystems, tropical dry forests are seldom granted a leading role. They lack the lush mystique of rainforests and the climatic extremes of deserts. Yet these vanishing ...

Tropical dry forests occupy regions characterised by distinct wet and dry seasons and host ecosystems adapted to periodic water scarcity and anthropogenic pressure. Ecological resilience in these ...

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A NASA plane came to Panama to acquire aerial images to inform scientists about the diversity of tropical ecosystems. At the same time, researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute ...

Tropical dry forests occupy regions characterised by marked seasonality, with prolonged dry periods alternating with intense rainfall. These ecosystems harbour high levels of endemism and provide ...

Tropical forests draw down and store large quantities of CO₂ from the atmosphere. The Amazon rainforest in South America, for ...

Tropical rainforests represent one of our planet’s most critical natural assets in the fight against climate change, storing approximately 25% of all terrestrial carbon despite covering just 6% of ...

Tropical forest plant roots have not received as much research attention as aboveground vegetation. This knowledge gap affects our understanding of how rainforests adapt to change, including their ...