A University of Queensland-led team has completed one of the most comprehensive surveys of Australia's subtropical rainforests to document how climate dictates what species thrive in different ...

The following adaptations allow plants to survive in the conditions of the rainforest. Lianas - these are woody vines that have roots in the ground but climb up the trees to reach the sunlight.

while some large rainforest trees can use nearly 1200 L of water in a single day! Essentially all of the water used by land plants is absorbed from the soil by roots. A root system consists of a ...

The following adaptations allow plants to survive in the conditions of the rainforest. Lianas - these are woody vines that have roots in the ground but climb up the trees to reach the sunlight.

Then, during the summer of 2019, the fieldwork team collected leaves and roots to measure functional traits of the different tree species that should inform species resource-use strategies.

Thousands of trees have been planted by volunteers as part of a new temperate rainforest in south Devon ... pop them into the root trainers and then they come out a year or two later to become ...