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 ...

Home to perhaps half the world’s terrestrial species, rainforests are the most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet. However, when one strolls through the forest, this biodiversity is rarely apparent ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. All tropical rainforests have similar characteristics including climate, ...

We collected the entire fauna (arthropods, gastropods, annelids, amphibians, reptiles and mammals) from 35 ferns of a range of sizes (1–200 kg fresh weight) and vertical heights (2–52 m) from 7 ha of ...

Canopy cranes, once reserved for treetop research, let you see the “eighth continent” like an arbornaut. Morning mist hovers above the canopy in Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park, one of the richest ...

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 ...

The distribution of canopy heights in tropical rain forests directly affects carbon storage and the maintenance of biodiversity. We report results from a unique 20-yr record of annual monitoring of ...