Photo by Karen Dewolfe

Research note – High biodiversity

Biodiversity is “the degree of variation of life forms within a given species, ecosystem, biome, or an entire planet”. Tropical systems tend to be among the most diverse.  While doing research in a diverse system such as tropical forest you are inevitably going to see a great number of extremely unique and exciting things. While some of the most noteworthy are usually those that make it onto this page as posts, there are often many more others that don’t make it. Often this could be because we didn’t get a photo or maybe we already had done up a post for that day. Whatever the reason, there are far more species deserving species of the day status than days we have to post! At the Las Cruces Station there are 113 species of mammals, over 400 species of birds, and seemly countless numbers of plant and insect species! Clearly this is an exciting place to visit, work or study.