Their list of 1,119 tree species names, the first list of common species of the world's tropical forests, will allow researchers to focus their efforts on understanding the ecology of these ...

Being struck by lightning is something humans generally try to avoid. But for at least one tropical tree species, this doesn’t hurt—and might even be a good thing. Scientists have long ...

While tropical forests are famous for their ... which do not provide the names of the common trees. To overcome this, the scientists used a technique known as resampling to estimate which are ...