A plant native to the tropical forests of Mexico was essential for the development of the contraceptive pill.
Tag - tropical forest
Lorena Villanueva-Almanza
Living on the edge of fragmented forests: distance, insects and fungi impact plant traits
Seedling establishment is a crucial bottleneck in plant population dynamics, but seedlings don't behave the same way fully-grown trees do.
Juniper Kiss
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
Identifying the biodiversity of the Mayan underworld
In the caves of Quintana Roo, there are not only stalactites hanging from the ceiling. There are tree roots too, but the roots of which trees?
Dale Maylea
Low-intensity logging and hunting have long-term effects on seed dispersal but not fecundity in Afrotropical forests
Hunting and logging can alter ecological communities, but their long-term effects are seldom studied in Afrotropical forests. Tropical trees respond to environmental disturbance on timescales that usually surpass the...
William Salter
What makes New Caledonian rainforests so different?
Rainforests in the Southwest Pacific can be highly diverse, even on a global scale, displaying higher species richness than African rainforests.
botanyone
Functional significance of crown shape diversity and plasticity across tropical tree species
It has been maintained that selection for sapling performance in the strongly limiting light conditions of tropical forest understorey is likely to maximise whole-plant light capture efficiency. In their investigation...
