The palm family is a major source of invasive plants because of their long history of introductions outside their native range in tropical and subtropical regions for their use as food and ornamentals
Rainforest vertebrates have been monitored at permanent monitoring sites across the Australian Wet Tropics rainforest since 1997. Such surveys have been conducted on an ongoing basis across the Spec,
Comparisons of nematode communities among ecosystems have indicated that, unlike many organisms, nematode communities have less diversity in the tropics than in temperate ecosystems. There are, howeve