Pucha and his family have spent years recreating their own piece of jungle with rescued species on a 32-hectare farm called ...
With the aid of stable hydrogen isotopes in volcanic glass, an international research team, including Senckenberg geoscientist Prof. Dr. Andreas Mulch, has studied the uplift history of the Andes ...
Trees across the Amazon rainforest are growing larger in response to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to a major new study. The research, published in the Nature Plants ...
New research published in Nature Ecology and Evolution reveals significant recent shifts in tree diversity among the tropical ...
The rainforest in the Amazon basin transpires vast amounts of gaseous isoprene. Until now, it was assumed that this molecule is not transported far up into the atmosphere, as it rapidly declines when ...
Due to climate change, the Amazon is experiencing longer dry seasons and droughts, which could edge it into a new climate known as the “hypertropics.” Crossing this biome threshold would come with ...
The study explores what the Amazon would have looked like during the last Ice Age. The Amazon rainforest is home to a remarkable variety of plants and animals not found anywhere else on Earth, with ...
On a recent journey into the Ecuadorian Amazon jungle, Ramón Pucha realized he was being trailed. Fresh puma tracks now lined ...
FRANKFURT/MAINZ/HELSINKI/LEIPZIG. Who hasn’t enjoyed the aromatic scent in the air when walking through the woods on a summer’s day? Partly responsible for this ...