Is the World's Biggest Vine on Panama's Barro Colorado Island?
July 20, 2024
July 20, 2024
PANAMA CITY, Panama, July 20 (TNSres) -- The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute issued the following news:
Climate change has winners and losers. In tropical forests, woody vines known as lianas are winners. The vines snake up towering trees towards the sky--and their leaves compete with tree leaves for light. Researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's (STRI) Barro Colorado Island Research Station in Panama discovered the world's record-breaking lian . . .
Climate change has winners and losers. In tropical forests, woody vines known as lianas are winners. The vines snake up towering trees towards the sky--and their leaves compete with tree leaves for light. Researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's (STRI) Barro Colorado Island Research Station in Panama discovered the world's record-breaking lian . . .