Roughly 40 percent of Earth’s land surface is covered by grasslands. Grasslands store about one-third of Earth’s terrestrial carbon and act as important carbon sinks. More than one million people take ...

In seasonally flooded wetlands, inundation and associated organic debris deposition followed by a drawdown period can promote plant community diversity across space and time. Post-flood regeneration ...

Agroup of members of our local palm society along with others from around the tropical world are heading for the Peruvian Amazon. We plan to study what is happening there in regard to forest ...

New research led by the University of Liverpool reveals the scale of inappropriate reforestation projects across Africa. A study published in the journal Science reveals that an area the size of ...

Small mountain ponds high in the tropical Andes may be playing an outsized role in global climate change, according to new ...

The increasingly urgent climate crisis has led to a boom in commercial tree plantations in an attempt to offset excess carbon emissions. However, authors of a peer-reviewed opinion paper publishing ...

Mountains are interesting systems for studying patterns of diversity distribution and the role of environmental filters and competition on community assembly. According to the phylogenetic niche ...