Aim It remains poorly understood why the position of the forest–savanna biome boundary, in a domain defined by precipitation and temperature, differs in South America, Africa and Australia. Process ...

By Shanna Hanbury Natural forest regrowth in the world’s tropical rainforests is expanding. According to the Forest ...

The idea that tropical forest and savanna are alternative states is crucial to how we manage these biomes and predict their future under global change. Large-scale empirical evidence for alternative ...

A significant number of trees in tropical ecosystems are being subjected to a dangerously high temperature threshold where the process of photosynthesis begins to fail, new research has found. The ...

UC Davis economist Stephen Vosti and his collaborators have received an international science award for their efforts to save tropical rain forests and reduce poverty by addressing the economic and ...

Preventing the re-clearing of second-growth forests is a major challenge for restoration efforts in tropical regions, according to a new study led by researchers from Columbia University, University ...

A team of scientists from the University of British Columbia, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of Miami published a new study in Ecology Letters showing how rising ...

Altogether, the Amazon fires impacted 3.3 million hectares of the forest, almost the size of Belgium. “For the first time in the analysis covering 2022–2024, fire-induced degradation has overtaken ...