If you take a look at a tropical rainforest, the species of plants you see can tell you the story about their life.
Tag - rainforest
Rocío Ramírez Barrios
You get a better model of the forest when you look at the individual trees
The computing principle GIGO states that if the data you put into a model is garbage, then the output will be too. Jie Yang and colleagues have been tackling the problem of modeling of tropical tree growth. What data is...
Alex Assiry![Image: Klomp et al., Biology Letters 10: 20140743, 2014. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2014.0776]](https://i0.wp.com/botany.one/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/03-July-SIZED-centre-over-column.jpg?resize=585%2C283&ssl=1)
Looks like leaf-like lizards live longer
Draco cornutus lizards live longer thanks to leaf-like colouration and mimicry.
Nigel Chaffey
Growing up or growing out? How soil pH and light affect seedling growth of a relictual rainforest tree
Seedling growth rates can have important long-term effects on forest dynamics. Environmental variables such as light availability and edaphic factors can exert a strong influence on seedling growth. The aim of a new...
AoBPLANTS
Epigenetics is important – but did you know it was this important on a global, planet-shaping scale?
A recent paper in Annals of Botany looks at how local environmental factors shape vast tracts of rainforest.
AJ Cann