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 ...

Extinction Most Likely For Rare Trees In Amazon Rainforest Date: August 18, 2008 Source: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Summary: Common tree species in the Amazon will survive even grim ...

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 ...

Other trees common in the rainforest include the towering Brazil nut, which grows up to 160 feet tall, and the Tacuma palm, notable for rings of wicked thorns around its trunk.

While the Amazon may be the most famous rain forest in the world, it still holds many mysteries, including which tree species are the most common, which a new study has now identified.

The Amazon is the largest and most diverse rain forest in the world — about 10 percent of all known species on Earth dwell there — but only a few dozen of the Amazon's thousands of tree ...

Tropical Rainforest Vulnerability Index ... Fast-growing drought-tolerant trees are now outcompeting species ... they come hard, causing flooding. But drought periods are increasingly common and ...

Newly-planted palm oil trees are seen growing on the site of a destroyed tropical rainforest in Kuala Cenaku, Riau Province, on Sumatra Island, Indonesia, on November 21, 2007.