More than 96% of deforestation, or human-caused, permanent removal of forest cover, occurs in the tropics.

A study led by Associate Professor Kelton McMahon at University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography has found that food webs on tropical reefs are more fragile than we once thought.

New research examines the reasons for the decline of small mammals in Australia’s tropical savannas and identifies the most effective practical solutions.

Squamellaria plants grow special structures to host the ants they symbiotically rely on for nutrients. Distinct compartments ...

One of Australia’s big four banks warns the nation is vulnerable to food supply disruption, calling for action – diversified trade, stockpiles and securing key farm inputs – to avoid a ...

Twelve surface soil samples from each of four rainforest types on different soils of the humid, tropical lowlands of north Queensland were removed to germination-house conditions. Seed germination was ...

The wild prevails as paths twist and turn around curvy lakes, navigating from shade to bright sun. A walk takes visitors past tropical beauties of all sizes and shapes, from strangler figs to ...

A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: As sharks declined by 75 percent and fish preferred by ...

The Hawaii County Department of Parks and Recreation will start charging admission fees to the Pana­‘ewa Rainforest Zoo and Gardens in August.

Papers from the Leeds Symposium on Tropical Rain Forest Ecology and Resource Management, held at Easter 1982 at the University of Leeds; sponsored by the British Ecological Society and the Leeds ...