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Thicker-leaved tropical plants may flourish under climate change（图）
Thicker-leaved tropical plants flourish climate change
2021/4/16
How plants will fare as carbon dioxide levels continue to rise is a tricky question and, researchers say, especially vexing in the tropics. Some aspects of plants' survival may get easier, some parts ...
Clouds' greenhouse effect instrumental in origin of tropical storms（图）
Clouds greenhouse effect instrumental origin tropical storms
2020/11/6
The tropical storm season in the Atlantic Ocean is already well into the Greek alphabet for naming.Better tropical storm track forecasting has allowed timely preparations and evacuations. However, pre...
Imagine a tropical forest, and you might conjure up tall trees hung with vines, brightly colored birds, howling monkeys and ... rain. Indeed, precipitation patterns, along with temperature, dictate wh...
Long-lived tropical trees play outsized role in carbon storage（图）
Long-lived tropical trees outsized role carbon storage
2020/4/17
Trees that grow fast, live long lives and reproduce slowly account for the bulk of the biomass -- and carbon storage -- in some tropical rainforests, a team of scientists reports in a paper published ...
Scientists have discovered an antibiotic produced by a soil bacterium in a Mexican tropical forest that may help lead to a "plant probiotic."Probiotics, which provide health benefits to humans, can al...
Solutions to urban heat differ between tropical and drier climes（图）
urban differ between tropical drier climes
2019/10/18
In summer heat, cities may swelter more than nearby suburbs and rural areas. And while the size of this urban heat island effect varies widely among the world's cities, heat island intensity can large...
From tropical to boreal ecosystems,temperature drives functioning（图）
tropical boreal ecosystems drives functioning
2019/10/18
With the help of an NSF grant, University of Arizona scientists trekked across the Americas: from moist, tropical jungles of Panama to the frigid boreal forests of Colorado to the wet temperate forest...
Tropical soil disturbance could be hidden source of carbon dioxide（图）
Tropical soil disturbance hidden source carbon dioxide
2019/10/28
Thousand-year-old tropical soils unearthed by accelerating deforestation and agricultural land use could be unleashing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to a new study by NSF-funded resear...
Shipwrecks off North Carolina coast harbor tropical migrants（图）
Shipwrecks off North Carolina coast harbor tropical migrants
2019/10/30
Tropical and subtropical fish are taking up residence on shipwrecks and other sunken structures off the North Carolina coast. This pattern may continue or even accelerate in coming years given predict...
Arsenic-breathing microbes discovered in the tropical Pacific Ocean（图）
Arsenic-breathing microbes tropical Pacific Ocean
2019/10/30
For most living things, arsenic is a deadly poison, but new research shows that microorganisms are breathing arsenic in a large area of the Pacific Ocean. A University of Washington team has discovere...
Record-low 2016 Antarctic sea ice due to ‘perfect storm’ of tropical,polar conditions（图）
record-low 2016 antarctic sea ice perfect storm tropical polar conditions
2017/9/19
While winter sea ice in the Arctic is declining so dramatically that ships can now navigate those waters without any icebreaker escort, the scene in the Southern Hemisphere is very different. Sea ice ...
Expanding Tropical Forest Spells Disaster for Conservation（图）
expanding tropical forest disaster conservation
2017/9/19
A North Carolina State University study shows that fire suppression efforts in Brazilian savannas turn many of those areas into forest lands, with negative consequences for the plants and animals that...
Can an ancient ocean shoreline set the stage for a tropical forest of today?
ancient ocean shoreline set the stage tropical forest
2017/7/24
Find related stories on NSF's Critical Zone Observatory Sites. Find related stories on NSF's Long-Term Ecological Research Sites.Could an ancient ocean shoreline determine what a tropical forest looks...
Global forest network cracks the case of tropical biodiversity（图）
Global forest network cracks tropical biodiversity
2017/7/24
If aliens sent an exploratory mission to Earth, one of the first things they’d notice — after the fluffy white clouds and blue oceans of our water world — would be the way vegetation grades from exube...
Lianas Stifle Tree Fruit and Seed Production in Tropical Forests
Tree Fruit Seed Production Tropical Forests
2017/7/21
Woody vines, known as lianas, compete intensely with trees and their numbers are on the rise in many tropical forests around the world. A new study at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI...