In Panama’s dense lowland jungle, a tropical species called Dipteryx oleifera —known locally as almendro or the tonka bean ...

One species of tropical tree seems not only to survive lightning strikes but also to thrive because of them Being struck by ...

A major new study has revealed that tropical forests across the Americas are not adapting quickly enough to climate change, raising concerns about their long-term resilience.

Imagine a forest so vast and wild that its boundaries stretch farther than the eye can see, where ancient trees tower like ...

Lightning strikes may kill hundreds of millions of trees every year, but one tropical tree has evolved to benefit from the ...

Before a discovery in a Panamanian rainforest ... of the most closely studied tropical forests in the world. Dr. Gora set out to study whether individual trees in the forest benefit from ...

Over one-third of the compounds were terpenoids, chemicals that plants use to ward off threats like insects and pathogens.

In the super-diverse, hyper-competitive lowland tropical forests, it makes sense that a tree would employ chemical defenses that are completely different from its neighbors. "If a tree has the ...

To get that information, we are going to create 3D images of them—from the top of the forest canopy to the roots of its trees.” Barely any sunlight reaches the floor of a tropical rainforest ...