abstract:Tropical ecology studies the relationship between plants and animals in the tropical biome (in a tropical zone), these mean the area between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. Day and night here last approximately twelve hours.
"We previously assumed that if the land is protected, then the plants and animals living there will persist, " said Sandy Andelman, head of CI's TropicalEcology Assessment and Monitoring network.
For decades it has not only generated wealth in scientific knowledge in the field of tropicalecology but it has systematically and successfully disseminated this knowledge to professionals and the general public through education, training and awareness raising.