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grows out of a zombie#ants head in a Brazilian rain forest. Originally thought to be a single species, called Ophiocordyceps unilateralis,
All four known fungi species live in Brazils Atlantic rain forest, which is rapidly changing due to climate change
A vanilla flavoring that promises to be significantly cheaper than the costly extract made from beans grown in rain forests is scheduled to hit the markets in 2014.
The botanist has been draping the walls with plants from rain forests for a good 30 years now.
#A few Tree Species Dominate Amazon Rain forest The Amazon is the largest and most diverse rain forest in the world about 10 percent of all known species On earth dwell there
Until now researchers'knowledge of the types of trees in the Amazon and where they were located was based on analyses of regions the rain forest's vast expanse made it challenging to survey in its entirety.
To help shed light on this giant rain forest's tree composition more than 120 scientists catalogued any trees with stems thicker than 3. 9 inches (10 centimeters) at 1170 different locations throughout Amazonia the 2. 3
Trees That Dominate the Rain forest'Hyperdominant'trees Of these 16000 tree species scientists unexpectedly discovered that only 227 species
#Amazon river'Breathes'Carbon dioxide from Rain forest Bacteria living in the Amazon river can digest woody materials shed by the surrounding rain forest by turning these pieces of tree bark
In fact only 5 percent of the Amazon rain forest's plant-based carbon ends up reaching the ocean the researchers said.
#Bushmeat Trade Is Transforming Rain forest Bushmeat hunting or the hunting of meat from wild animals may be transforming the rain forests in Africa.
When hunters kill gorillas and other primates for their meat the primates no longer disperse the seeds of some fruit
and his colleagues surveyed trees and mammals in the Nigerian rain forest bordering Cameroon. Park rangers protected some forested areas
Southeastern Suriname a dense South american Eden for rain forest species. Scientists led by Conservation International's Rapid Assessment Program spent three weeks in the region in 2012 surveying animal
#Deforestation Plants the Seed for Rapid Evolution in Brazil The deforestation of the Brazilian rain forest has created a hidden consequence:
As a result seed sizes are smaller in parts of the rain forest where large birds are missing finds a new study detailed in the May 31 issue of the journal Science.
#Global Warming Forecast for Amazon Rain forest: Dry and Dying The Amazon rain forest's dry season lasts three weeks longer than it did 30 years ago
and the likely culprit is global warming a new study finds. Rain falls year-round in the Amazon but most of the annual deluge drops during the wet season.
The length of the dry season in the southern Amazon is the most important climate condition controlling the rain forest Rong Fu a climate scientist at The University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences said in a statement.
If the dry season is too long the rain forest will not survive. The new findings forecast a more parched future for the Amazon rain forest than the climate report released last month by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) the study authors said.
The IPCC models predict the Amazon dry season will last three to 10 days longer by 2100.
The dry season over the southern Amazon is already marginal for maintaining rain forest Fu said. At some point if it becomes too long the rain forest will reach a tipping point.
Fu and her colleagues analyzed rainfall patterns across the Southern Amazon rain forest since 1979 and plugged the data into 50 simulations from eight climate models.
The climate models from the IPCC's AR5 report released in September reported smaller dry season changes than actually measured since 1979.
This means the IPCC models likely underestimate future predictions of rain forest climate change effects the researchers conclude.
and fruits acting act as pollinators and seed dispersers especially in deserts and rain forests. Bats pollinate wild bananas the famous saguaro cactus and durian the world's most expensive fruit.
Without bats rain forests would recover more slowly from disturbances. There also would be no tequila the agave plant from which tequila is made depends on the Mexican long-tongued bat to pollinate it.
#'Hidden'Fires Burning in Amazon Rain forest Small fires in the Amazon rain forest are having a huge impact.
and then gradually disappear as the rain forest recovers the NASA statement said. NASA scientists are using an instrument on the Terra satellite to detect these signs of damage which include slight alterations in the amount and condition of foliage present.
The findings also shed light on how the Maya managed their rain forests. Scientists have disagreed about
#Legend of Lost City Spurs Exploration, Debate Deep in the dense rain forests of Honduras a glittering white city sits in ruins waiting for discovery.
Probably not according to archaeologists and anthropologists who generally agree there was once something in the eastern Honduras rain forest though likely not a city of mythical wealth and luxury.
If people become convinced that a gold-laden city is hiding in the Honduran rain forest it could encourage looting he said damaging the real archaeological sites that no doubt lurk among the tropical vegetation.
Elkins and his team flew over the rain forests in an airplane shooting laser pulses at the ground in a method called light detection and ranging (Lidar.
#More than 30,000 Miles of Roads Built in Amazon in 3 Years How long does it take to build a little more than 30000 miles (50000 kilometers) of new roads through the rain forest?
While roads cover only a tiny fraction of the total land surface of South america's largest nation their effect on local ecosystems particularly rain forests may be huge.
But by mapping road construction researchers think they can aid future efforts to stop destruction of the Brazilian rain forest.
But road construction is just one of many factors leading to the continued deforestation of the world's largest rain forest.
Amazonian Butterflies Drink Turtle Tears The sight of butterflies flocking onto the heads of yellow-spotted river turtles in the western Amazon rain forest is not uncommon at least
and sweating people said Geoff Gallice a graduate student of entomology at the Florida Museum of Natural history who has witnessed butterflies flocking to turtle tears in the western Amazon rain forest.
The satellite called BIOMASS will use long range radar to pierce through clouds and collect data from forested regions inaccessible from the ground such as the boreal forests of Russia and the Amazon rain forest.
I first stepped out of the dense tropical rain forest of Central african republic's Dzanga-Sangha region into a 30-acre clearing with mineral rich soils known as the Village of the Elephants.
#Ruins of Lost City May Lurk Deep in Honduras Rain forest New images of a possible lost city hidden by Honduran rain forests show
Essentially slow-flying planes send constant laser pulses groundward as they pass over the rain forest imaging the topography below the thick forest canopy.
since the days of the conquistadors who believed the Mosquitia rain forests hid a metropolis full of gold
The titan arum is native to the rain forests of central Sumatra in western Indonesia. The D c. plant was about 4 feet (1. 2 m) tall
and once the tadpoles hatch she ferries each one on her back from the rain forest floor up to trees as tall as 100 feet (30 meters).
and they can be found in rain forests mountains farmland woods and cities. Bats have two strategies for weathering the cold.
and watching them hatch the strawberry poison arrow frog carries her tadpoles one by one on her back from the rain forest floor up into trees as high as 100 feet.
Lidar has revealed also a lost city beneath the Cambodian jungle (near Angkor) as well as evidence of Ciudad Blanca a never-confirmed legendary metropolis hidden by Honduran rain forests.
and in water and are found in the rain forests and plains of India southern China and Southeast asia.
Nevertheless 79 percent of Madagascar s original rain forest habitat has already been cleared by humans. Multifaceted Approaches A professor at Stony Brook University Wright approaches to saving Madagascar s lemurs and their forest habitat involves combining science and conservation.
The Park protects 43500 hectares of forest including rain forests and 12 lemur species. In addition Wright is the founder of the Centre Valbio Research Station located on the edge of the Park.
and adventures in South american rain forests in High Moon Over the Amazon: My Quest to Understand the Monkeys of the Night (Lantern Books:
Trees That Dominate the Rain forest Researchers already knew that angiosperms had diversified and spread before the dino-killing meteorite smashed into Earth and reset life on the planet 65 million years ago.
African elephants live in Sub-saharan africa the rain forests of Central and West Africa and the Sahel desert in Mali.
Asian elephants live in Nepal India and Southeast asia in scrub forests and rain forests. Elephants eat grasses roots fruit and bark.
Satellite observations of large methane concentrations above tropical rain forests, which have been interpreted as direct emissions from vegetation3,
If planting of trees was done on a large enough scale they create their own weather like rain forest keep the USA wetter.
Hell the rain forest are disappearing as we speak so no plants or algae and you have higher methane and co2.
and so could potentially reduce the pressure to destroy additional rain forest. Increased harvest frequency also holds potential for mitigating risk under a changing climate.
Moisture recycling works best in large areas of undisturbed forest so it is essential that measures to protect the Amazon rain forest are in place to ensure that that this natural process can be maintained in
lowland forest in Indonesia mountain rain forest in China and monsoon forest in Laos and Vietnam.
The region accounts for more than 25 percent of the world's tropical rain forests and is one of the four remaining extensive pristine forested areas left in the world (Amazon Congo Papua new guinea and Guiana Shield.
The investigations are being carried out in close co-operation with the international not-for-profit organization Iwokrama International Centre for Rain forest Conservation and Development.
It actually exceeds the amount of carbon you can measure in the rain forests. So what happens to that stockpile of carbon
in order to find fruit in the rain forest. The result: Chimpanzees know that trees of certain species produce fruit simultaneously
where the rain forest supplies more food the influence of the dominant male increases. In order to escape his attention many other males remain small.
In fact however these rain forest dwellers clad in a reddish-brown coat are our most distant relatives within the great ape family.
During a five-year period of observation in the rain forest only a single male was seen to develop secondary sexual characteristics.
A rain forest without elephants is a barren place. They bring it to life they create the trails
#Climate changes effects on temperate rain forests surprisingly complexlonger warmer growing seasons associated with a changing climate are altering growing conditions in temperate rain forests
Barrett and her colleagues explored trends in forest composition in southeastern and south-central Alaska home to the bulk of the world's temperate rain forests.
Individual species within the rain forest however differed--western redcedar biomass increased by four percent while shore pine declined by almost five percent.
Native to rain forests and rocky habitats this gecko is a bit of a night owl. It is found on the vertical surfaces of rocks
Surveys of similar habitat near the area where this species was found did not reveal additional populations so this may be a rare species. The gecko was discovered on rocky terrain in isolated rain forests of the Melville Range of eastern Australia.
#Drought in amazon rain forest: Continued studies may help predict future health of rain foreststwo major droughts within a five-year period have done significant damage to the Amazon forest in Brazil
#Tropical rain forests: Humans have doubled more than nitrogen inputsa new paper co-written by four University of Montana researchers finds that humans have doubled more than tropical nitrogen inputs.
Benjamin Sullivan a researcher working with UM College of Forestry and Conservation Professor Cory Cleveland led the team that looked at the nitrogen cycle in tropical rain forests.
Sullivan and his colleagues used a new method to demonstrate that biological nitrogen fixation in tropical rain forests may be less than a quarter of previous estimates.
That could be given a problem the high biodiversity of tropical rain forests and their important role in the global carbon cycle and the Earth's climate.
Past research has assumed that tropical rain forests have high levels of biological nitrogen fixation and that humans add relatively little nitrogen to tropical ecosystems.
#Ants plant tomorrows rainforesttropical montane rain forests are threatened highly and their remnants are surrounded often by deforested landscapes.
and Climate Research Centre and the University of Halle-Wittenberg demonstrates the importance of this hitherto neglected ecosystem function for the restoration of montane rain forests.
The Yungas a region on the eastern slopes of the Bolivian Andes near La Paz are marked by elongated valleys with relicts of the original mountain rain forest.
The study has been carried out in two 3000 ha islands of natural mountain rain forest which are surrounded by coca fields
and plant species and accelerate the regeneration of the mountain rain forest ecosystem. Schleuning concludes: Drought frequencies in the Andes are likely to increase in the future.
Greater area than tropical rain foreststropical grassy areas cover a greater area than tropical rain forests support about one fifth of the world's population
NASA study points to infrared-herring in apparent Amazon green-upfor the past eight years scientists have been working to make sense of why some satellite data seemed to show the Amazon rain forest greening-up during the region's dry season each year from June to October.
In their research paper published online in Geophysical Research Letters the researchers carried out studies in tropical rain forests in Peru measuring tree roots across different sites of varying altitude--from the warm Amazonian Lowlands to the cooler mountain ranges
The rain forests of Borneo Sumatra Java Thailand and Vietnam were thought previously to have been unaffected largely by humans
We observed a complete shift in the diazotrophic microbial community composition in response to the Amazon rain forest conversion to a pasture Mirza said.
Cloning vs. conservationsuppose you knew the rain forests would be destroyed totally in 20 years, no matter what.
and in tanks in the remote hills of the Panama rain forest. There is little chance they will escape into the wild,
Relatively undisturbed areas in tropical rain forests were about 82 feet tall, roughly the same height as the oak, beeches,
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