Results showed that plants evolved an active adaptation mechanism under chronic high N addition: (i) increased root C exudation rate to stimulate microbial phosphatase activity and accelerated the ...

Tropical forest plant roots have not received as much research attention as aboveground vegetation. This knowledge gap affects our understanding of how rainforests adapt to change, including their ...

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 ...

Tropical forests have long been treated as slow, patient allies in the fight against climate change, quietly locking away carbon over decades. A wave of new research suggests that, under the right ...

Tropical forests contain thousands of plant species that survive long dry periods without attracting much scientific attention outside specialist circles. Among them is Clusia rosea, a tree more often ...

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Biologists who set out to better understand the effects of climate change on plant species in tropical mountain regions found that even small variations in temperature and moisture can have massive ...

Through a course in dendrology, the study of the taxonomy of woody plants in the absence of flowers or fruits, two experts in forest diversity seek to leave a legacy of knowledge for future ...

The geochemical data indicate suggest that plant foods were consistently a substantial part of human diets, but became ...

Tropical forests, often described as the lungs of the planet, may be edging closer to a dangerous threshold as droughts ...