The world’s largest agricultural boom is transforming a vast savanna of hidden wonders. Here’s what happens when progress ...

This chapter describes some of the major terrestrial biomes in the world; tropical forests, savannas, deserts, temperate grasslands, temperate deciduous forests, Mediterranean scrub, coniferous ...

New research from a team of tropical biologists forecasts some of the changes that may occur in the Amazon rainforest as temperatures rise due to climate change.

Kate Parr, Professor of Tropical Ecology at the ... be done in a way that is appropriate to each system. "Non-forest systems such as savannas are misclassified as forest and therefore considered ...

the vast tropical savanna to the east. For now, the Pantanal is relatively intact, sustaining more than 270 communities—1.5 million people—in addition to its flora and fauna, and helping to stabilize ...

If the rainfall for the year was evenly distributed the area would become a tropical rainforest. In the African savanna region October signals the beginning of the dry season and - ironically ...

Green shoots spring from ashes in Brazil's fire-resistant savanna The huge wildfires that ripped through Brazil recently did not spare its vast tropical ... Upside-down forest - "The Cerrado ...

The wildlife and ecosystem of tropical savannas. videoThe wildlife and ecosystem ... The different layers of a deciduous forest. videoThe different layers of a deciduous forest Exploring the ...

GFW has long offered the ability to track near-real-time changes within tropical forests through its integrated ... served by data such as grasslands and savannas.” Moreover, since the alerts ...