A new study has for the first time identified the most common tree species in the tropical forests of Africa, the Amazon and Southeast Asia and their similarities have surprised scientists. “The [study] shows some uncanny similarities among the world’s great tropical rainforests,” said tropical ecologist Bill Laurance, a co-author of the study published […]
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A new species of stone oak tree has been described from deep in the forests of northern Sumatra and appears to be an important source of food for the Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s most threatened great ape. Named Lithocarpus tapanuliensis, the tree species is the first new stone oak identified on the island in more […]
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