Today the frozen Antarctic ice sheet borders the Southern Ocean. But tropical palm trees once flourished there. An intense warming phase occurred 52 million years ago, leading tropical vegetation, ...

Clues to the timing and cause of abrupt climate changes in the past may lie in ocean floor sediments, according to a study by scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Clues to the ...

New measurements of tropical forests are being collected by scientists to gain a better understanding of how they respond to seasonal climate variations. "A better understanding of tropical forest ...

https://doi.org/10.1899/11-103.1 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1899/11-103.1 AbstractDisplacement of riparian vegetation by exotic species is a global phenomenon ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The tropical realm of the Pacific contains many islands with closely similar (analogous) environmental settings. Due to the 'filter effect' of ...