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Humid broadleaf tropical and subtropical forests cover just 14% of the Earth ... P., Ervin, J. et al. A policy-driven framework for conserving the best of Earth’s remaining moist tropical forests.
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests are common in several terrestrial ecozones, including parts of the Afrotropic (equatorial Africa), Indomalaya (parts of the Indian subcontinent and ...
Tropical rainforests are, unsurprisingly, shown to be among the most species-rich areas on earth. Indeed, Borneo's lowland rainforest is the most diverse of all, with around 10,000 plant species.
Focusing on homogeneous lowland forests ignores the fact that 47% of tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests are located in mountainous regions that are environmentally more heterogeneous ...
Hot spots of undiscovered South American tree species likely include the tropical and subtropical moist forests of the Amazon basin, as well as Andean forests at elevations between 1,000 meters ...
Cindy Q. Tang1*, Yu-hui Li2*, Zhi-ying Zhang3, Species Diversity Patterns in Natural Secondary Plant Communities and Man-made Forests in a Subtropical Mountainous Karst Area, Yunnan, SW China, ...
by Zhu Hanbin, Chinese Academy of Sciences April 19, 2025. Recently, a research team led by Yan Junhua, a researcher at the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, found that ...