tropical rainforest
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tropical rainforests
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Dr. Alvin Helden discovered the new species while conducting fieldwork in the tropical rainforest of Uganda.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2026
Spreading over dozens of hectares of protected tropical rainforest, Tacugama is home to the critically endangered Western chimpanzee, which is threatened by habitat loss and poaching for bushmeat.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2025
But seagrass does it especially fast — at a rate 35 times that of tropical rainforest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025
It is much rarer for fires to occur naturally in the humid, tropical rainforest.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2024
The most extensive type of vegetation on the Gulf Coastal Plain is a tall evergreen forest resembling tropical rainforest.
From A Distributional Study of the Amphibians of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico by William E. Duellman
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