New research explores the surprising symbiotic relationship between tubers and different ant species at rainforest heights ...

High in Fiji’s rainforest, the ant plant Squamellaria grows swollen tubers packed with sealed, single-door “apartments.” ...

Odd plants from a remote Pacific island reveal new insights into an important ecological question: how unrelated and ...

The structure of the vascular epiphyte community in the overstory (20-28 m) of a riverine tropical rain forest was studied with the aid of a large tower crane between April and December of 1997. The ...

Ant plants from a remote Pacific island reveal new insights into an important ecological question: how unrelated and antagonistic partners can form long-term mutualistic relationships with the ...

We ended last week’s article with a reference to the riparian buffer zone. This, of course, is the area on either side of a ...

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