"The tropics with their lush rainforests are extremely rich in plant life but are still comparatively unknown to botanical science. Botanists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew have a centuries-long ...

Identifying critical areas for global biodiversity is an important step when prioritising areas for conservation, and generating biodiversity hotspot maps based on global species ranges -- at a scale ...

Palms are an important group of plants that we use to create a tropical look in our landscapes. May through August is the preferred time to plant palms here because the warm soil will encourage ...

Figure 2: Recruitment across the seed-to-seedling transition showed NDD in the control, but spraying with the fungicide Amistar removed this NDD. Figure 4: Including NDD in model simulations ...

The best indoor trees can transform even the smallest shoebox apartment into a lush, tropical paradise. A few things are nonnegotiable to keep so grand a specimen alive and well: Now that we’ve got ...

David Burslem received funding from the UK Natural Environment Research Council that contributed to this research. Christopher Philipson now works for the tropical forest protection developer Permian ...