Sometimes called the planet's "lungs," the rainforests of the Amazon play an important role in regulating Earth's carbon dioxide levels. Forests thick with trees stash away CO2, lightening the load of ...

Diversity patterns and dynamics at forest edges are not well understood. We disentangle the relative importance of edge-effect variables on spatio-temporal patterns in species richness and occupancy ...

Reasons for the so-called “edge effect” – unexplained yield losses in outer corn rows that disappear in interior rows – are coming into focus, thanks to work by Iowa State University Extension field ...

The world's third-largest island is full of life: Orangutans swing from branches, pygmy elephants roam the land, and exploding ants creep along the treetops. But Borneo, a massive spot of land in ...