Change in vegetation cover by biome across Latin America, 2001-2010. Click image to enlarge. Latin America lost nearly 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 square miles) of forest — an area larger ...

A central innovation here is the breakdown of data by vegetation zone. Tropical rainforests are, unsurprisingly, shown to be among the most species-rich areas on earth.

The most intact biomes included tundras, boreal and taiga forests, deserts and xeric shrublands, and the countries boasting the highest levels of intact land were Russia, Canada, Brazil, and ...

The Kalahari in southwestern Africa is a xeric shrubland, also referred to as desert due to the predominance of sand. Climate science was so far investigating the climatic past of this region mainly ...

This map shows the global distribution of study sites in different biomes. Streams were located in tundra, temperate broadleaf forest, temperate coniferous forest, Mediterranean forest, xeric ...