Scientists Find Megadiversity at Top of Amazon Forest
![A Carnegie Institution scientist analyzes cytogenetically preserved tropical tree foliage for various chemical traits that can predict how it will survive. (Greg Asner)](https://gdb.voanews.com/6a9fd634-78ec-496b-a022-2135daa6e4b7_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Carnegie Institution scientist analyzes cytogenetically preserved tropical tree foliage for various chemical traits that can predict how it will survive. (Greg Asner)
![Lesya Litvinova shows a rubber bullet that she wears to remind herself why she is a volunteer, June 3, 2015. (Daniel Schearf/VOA)](https://gdb.voanews.com/2520e105-cf3f-4cd9-bba9-5fd56fdfd689_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Lesya Litvinova shows a rubber bullet that she wears to remind herself why she is a volunteer, June 3, 2015. (Daniel Schearf/VOA)
![A sample from the canopy of a Peruvian rainforest in the Spectranomics library at Carnegie Department of Global Ecology, which Greg Asner heads at the campus of Stanford University. (Robin Martin)](https://gdb.voanews.com/ddd07bd0-39ab-4fde-b277-02b34baddd6e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A sample from the canopy of a Peruvian rainforest in the Spectranomics library at Carnegie Department of Global Ecology, which Greg Asner heads at the campus of Stanford University. (Robin Martin)