Every April for the past decade, systems biologist Rodrigo Gutiérrez has driven 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) to reach one of the driest places on Earth: Chile’s Atacama Desert, parts of which ...

A symbiotic relationship is best defined as two organisms living together where one or both benefit from the relationship and ...

The guided tour takes you through a tropical rainforest, savannah and desert, and introduces you to plant adaptations and the characteristics of the habitats. The tour begins with a group assignment ...

In our desert, the biggest limitations for plant survival are heat and drought. Our native plants have developed some amazing strategies to help them survive our desert climate extremes; these ...

As deserts expanded their range over the past 5-7 million years, many plants invaded the new biome and rapidly diversified, producing amazing adaptations to drought and heat. Can plants continue to ...