Researchers have found almost identical patterns of tree diversity across the world's tropical forests. The study of over one million trees across 1,568 locations found that just 2.2% of tree ...

Palms are among the most common tree species in the Amazon rainforest, but in some tropical areas they are unusual, or conspicuously absent. Before, variation in numbers of palm trees among ...

Mother nature encourages diversity in rainforest trees. Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com. January 26, 2006. Older forests have a greater diversity of trees than younger forests according to research ...

Probably the first pioneer plants to arrive in Hawaii were mosses and ferns. Ferns have been around for over 360 million ...

He's taken students along on these trips and captured images while trying to learn more and more. "About 12-13 years ago we started thinking about what are the ecological effects of lightning in a ...

Brazil, the country with the largest portion of tropical rainforest, had the highest rates of deforestation globally. It accounted for more than 40 percent of tree loss globally, followed by the ...