Hidden 'Highways' Allow Species to Travel Between Brazil's Rainforests

London, UK (SPX) Jan 30, 2025

New research reveals that forests along Brazil's rivers serve as "highways," enabling tree species to migrate between the Amazon and Atlantic rainforests over millions of years. These two vast rainforests, typically separated by hundreds of miles of dry forests and savannas, are otherwise inhospitable to most rainforest tree species. For a long time, scientists believed that tree migration