Lindsay McCulloch processes samples in the La Selva lab. The team hopes to glean insights into what the future holds for this ecosystem.Credit: Carrie L. Woods Wiping sweat from her face, ecologist ...

The rainforest is one of the last places on earth we still have yet to fully “discover.” Biologists working in the Amazonian jungle, for example, catalogue newly discovered species of plant and insect ...

Rainforest in Sabah, Malaysia. Danum Valley is the location of a canopy walkway. A groundbreaking new project dedicated to studying rainforest canopies is about to enter the implementation stage in ...

A leaf falls from the rainforest canopy, but it never hits the ground. Instead, it becomes trapped by nets of sticky fungi. While other lost leaves litter the forest floor, this one has joined the ...

Tropical rainforests are hot and wet. They have high temperatures and heavy rainfall throughout the year. Tropical rainforests lie along the equator, mainly between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn ...

Claire Gely receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Susan Laurance works for James Cook University that runs the Daintree Rainforest Observatory. Susan Laurance has received ARC funding ...