Dr. Zaiton Samdin is an Associate Professor in the School of Business and Economics, Universiti Putra Malaysia, and currently a Deputy Director, Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products ...

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 ...

Researchers have found that tropical forest ecosystems are more reliant on aquatic insects than temperate forest ecosystems, making them more vulnerable to disruptions to the links between land and ...

The air moving above the forest carries valuable information about how trees absorb carbon, and what may happen in the future as global temperatures rise Vanessa Crooks The forest breathes! There is a ...

Multi-institutional effort led by Berkeley Lab, called NGEE-Tropics, will couple field research with the development of a new ecosystem model Tropical forests play major roles in regulating Earth's ...

The destruction of tropical rainforests — seen in shocking images of huge wildfires, vast clearcuts, and dying drought-stressed trees — is unfolding annually before the world’s eyes. But some serious ...

Every year, tropical forests release countless litres of water into the atmosphere, generating rain. New research has estimated the value of this ecosystem service at billions of pounds every year, ...

A research team led by the University of Oxford has carried out the most comprehensive assessment to date of how logging and conversion to oil palm plantations affect tropical forest ecosystems. The ...

Along with forests, grasslands and wetlands are also being converted to cropland and pasture at an increasing rate around the world—often for livestock farming and the export of agricultural products.

When you sip a cup of coffee or use a rubber band, you’re benefiting from tropical forests. These lush ecosystems provide countless products we rely on daily — from food to materials like wood and ...