Plants and microbes shape global biomes through local underground alliances Date: April 17, 2019 Source: Princeton University Summary: Researchers report that the distribution of forest types ...

PHOENIX – Step inside Biosphere 2’s tropical rainforest, which thrives beneath an enormous glass dome, and visitors are met by a wall of warm humidity and lush greenery. The sprawling complex ...

I. Colin Prentice, Dominique Jolly, BIOME 6000 Participants, Mid-Holocene and Glacial-Maximum Vegetation Geography of the Northern Continents and Africa, Journal of Biogeography, Vol. 27, No. 3 (May, ...

THE Amazon rainforest — known as the “lungs of the planet” — is the world’s largest tropical rainforest and is famed for its biodiversity and animal life. Covering an enormous 1.7 billi… ...

Savannahs are usually found near the equator, between the tropical rainforest and the desert biomes. ... Make a mindmap of the location, climate, plants, animals and threats for each biome.

Ecologists studying the tropical rainforest biome in Biosphere 2 near Tucson say it’s similar to being in natural rainforests, which absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen on a grand scale.