The unusual strategy employed by this plant has caused people to hail it as a peacemaking hero of the Fijian rainforests.

For decades, scientists and conservationists have been using aboveground plant biodiversity as a metric for conserving ...

To grow in a tropical rainforest is to engage in constant warfare. Plants battle for resources, such as sunlight, water and minerals. Similar tree species compete for resources in the same ways ...

However, tropical rainforest canopies are battlegrounds for survival. Ants compete fiercely for nesting space, taking over ...

Whether in a desert, the savanna, or a tropical rainforest, plants have an important role in the ecological processes of Earth’s biomes. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll explore ...

Plant-Inhabiting Ant Utilizes Chemical Cues for Host Discrimination. Biotropica, 2011; DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2011.00786.x ...

Visiting the rainforest – a practical guide Visiting a tropical rainforest promises to be a memorable experience. Rainforests house around half the world’s plant and animal species and are ...

Citations M. Betts. Pollinator recognition by a keystone tropical plant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Published online March 2, 2015. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1419522112.

The Conservatory contains more than 10,000 square feet of tropical trees, flowers and other plants, along with a 15-feet-high waterfall, ponds, fish and other animals.

“Modern neotropical rainforests, with their palms and spectacular flowering-plant diversity, seem to have come into existence in the Paleocene epoch, shortly after the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 ...