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Thicker-leaved tropical plants may flourish under climate change（图）
Thicker-leaved tropical plants flourish climate change
2021/4/16
How plants will fare as carbon dioxide levels continue to rise is a tricky question and, researchers say, especially vexing in the tropics. Some aspects of plants' survival may get easier, some parts ...
Clouds' greenhouse effect instrumental in origin of tropical storms（图）
Clouds greenhouse effect instrumental origin tropical storms
2020/11/6
The tropical storm season in the Atlantic Ocean is already well into the Greek alphabet for naming.Better tropical storm track forecasting has allowed timely preparations and evacuations. However, pre...
Imagine a tropical forest, and you might conjure up tall trees hung with vines, brightly colored birds, howling monkeys and ... rain. Indeed, precipitation patterns, along with temperature, dictate wh...
Scientists have discovered an antibiotic produced by a soil bacterium in a Mexican tropical forest that may help lead to a "plant probiotic."Probiotics, which provide health benefits to humans, can al...
Solutions to urban heat differ between tropical and drier climes（图）
urban differ between tropical drier climes
2019/10/18
In summer heat, cities may swelter more than nearby suburbs and rural areas. And while the size of this urban heat island effect varies widely among the world's cities, heat island intensity can large...
From tropical to boreal ecosystems,temperature drives functioning（图）
tropical boreal ecosystems drives functioning
2019/10/18
With the help of an NSF grant, University of Arizona scientists trekked across the Americas: from moist, tropical jungles of Panama to the frigid boreal forests of Colorado to the wet temperate forest...
Shipwrecks off North Carolina coast harbor tropical migrants（图）
Shipwrecks off North Carolina coast harbor tropical migrants
2019/10/30
Tropical and subtropical fish are taking up residence on shipwrecks and other sunken structures off the North Carolina coast. This pattern may continue or even accelerate in coming years given predict...
Arsenic-breathing microbes discovered in the tropical Pacific Ocean（图）
Arsenic-breathing microbes tropical Pacific Ocean
2019/10/30
For most living things, arsenic is a deadly poison, but new research shows that microorganisms are breathing arsenic in a large area of the Pacific Ocean. A University of Washington team has discovere...
Record-low 2016 Antarctic sea ice due to ‘perfect storm’ of tropical,polar conditions（图）
record-low 2016 antarctic sea ice perfect storm tropical polar conditions
2017/9/19
While winter sea ice in the Arctic is declining so dramatically that ships can now navigate those waters without any icebreaker escort, the scene in the Southern Hemisphere is very different. Sea ice ...
Expanding Tropical Forest Spells Disaster for Conservation（图）
expanding tropical forest disaster conservation
2017/9/19
A North Carolina State University study shows that fire suppression efforts in Brazilian savannas turn many of those areas into forest lands, with negative consequences for the plants and animals that...
Can an ancient ocean shoreline set the stage for a tropical forest of today?
ancient ocean shoreline set the stage tropical forest
2017/7/24
Find related stories on NSF's Critical Zone Observatory Sites. Find related stories on NSF's Long-Term Ecological Research Sites.Could an ancient ocean shoreline determine what a tropical forest looks...
Global forest network cracks the case of tropical biodiversity（图）
Global forest network cracks tropical biodiversity
2017/7/24
If aliens sent an exploratory mission to Earth, one of the first things they’d notice — after the fluffy white clouds and blue oceans of our water world — would be the way vegetation grades from exube...
Tropical lowland frogs at greater risk from climate warming than high-elevation species,study shows
Tropical lowland frogs greater risk climate warming high-elevation species
2017/4/27
A new study of Peruvian frogs living at a wide variety of elevations—from the Amazon floodplain to high Andes peaks—lends support to the idea that lowland amphibians are at higher risk from future cli...
Evidence disproving tropical ‘thermostat’ theory:global warming can breach limits for life
disproving tropical thermostat theory global warming breach limits for life
2017/3/14
New research findings show that as the world warmed millions of years ago, conditions in the tropics may have made it so hot some organisms couldn’t survive.Longstanding theories dating to the 1980s s...
Evaluating forecasting models for predicting rainfall from tropical cyclones
forecasting models predicting rainfall tropical cyclones
2016/11/4
Many people know that tropical cyclones and hurricanes cause high winds and storm surges. But two of their other effects, heavy rainfall and inland flooding, can be just as dangerous and impact larger...