A new study published today by Wake Forest University and an international team of scientists reveals that tree communities across the Amazon and Andes are not adapting quickly enough to climate ...

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AUSTIN, Texas—Colorful poison frogs in the Amazon owe their great diversity to ancestors that leapt into the region from the Andes Mountains several times during the last 10 million years, a new study ...

The Amazon-Andes relationship is mutualistic and crosses geological eras. It was the presence and characteristics of the South American mountain range that allowed for the tropical rainforest to ...

The extraordinary biodiversity seen in the Amazon rainforest — one of the most species-rich ecosystems on Earth — may have evolved mainly due to the rise of the Andes, research suggests. Subscribe to ...