An article focusing on the work of Miles Silman and his collaborators work on species diversity in the Amazon Rainforest was featured in UK news resource The Guardian. It references an important paper his group published in the journal, Science.
Almost four hundred billion trees belonging to 16,000 different species grow Read more »
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Silman: Amazon Rainforest is Home to 16,000 Tree Species
by Jeff Muday October 22, 2013
Silman: How Is Climate Change Affecting Tropical Forests?
by Jeff Muday October 1, 2013
Biology Professor, Miles Silman was featured by WUNC Public Radio science correspondent Justin Catanoso in his feature titled “How Is Climate Change Affecting Tropical Forests?”
Silman is a pilot of sorts for the cause of preserving tropical forests. And he clings to such dark forms of hope in the face of Read more »
Silman’s Work Featured in National Geographic
by Jeff Muday
Rain Forest Plants Race to Outrun Global Warming
Tropical plants are migrating due to climate change, but can they move fast enough?
Justin Catanoso
for National Geographic
Published September 15, 2013
From a 13,000-foot peak of the Andes Mountains in southern Peru, gazing east over the dense rain forests of the Amazon basin, all you Read more »