Juergen Freund / Scientist Susan Laurance leads the Daintree Drought Experiment in far north Queensland. The experiment combines the efforts of plant physiologists, ecologists, soil experts, climatologists and hydrolo...

Nick Garbutt / Jaguar (Panthera onca palustris), male hunting amongst tree roots at edge of the Cuiaba River. Three Brothers, Porto Jofre, northern Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil. August 2017.

Bernard Castelein / Beech tree (Fagus sylvatica) showing roots, Peerdsbos, Brasschaat, Belgium

Chien Lee / Buttress roots on rainforest tree, Mulu National Park, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / White Lauan (Parashorea malaanonan) buttress roots, Danum Valley Field Center, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia

Juergen Freund / Banded sea kraits (Laticauda colubrina) around the roots of mangrove tree, split level. Mali Island, Macuata Province, Fiji, South Pacific.

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) juvenile male 'Mobangi' aged 5 years resting on a tree buttress, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African Republic. Nove...

George Sanker / Green heron (Butorides virescens) hunting for fish, camouflaged against tree roots, Everglades National Park, Florida, USA, March

Jack Dykinga / Woman swimming in Cenote Noh-Moson with Ficus tree roots, ten meters long, reaching toward the blue wate,r Yucatan, Mexico. No release available.

Luis Quinta / Looking up root system and tree trunk in Amazon forest, Rio Negro, Brazil, December 2009.

Konrad Wothe / Strangler Fig Tree (Ficus virens) beside water in rainforest, Lake Eacham NP, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia, October 2010

Konrad Wothe / Looking up the roots of a Strangler / Curtain Fig Tree (Ficus virens) rainforest, Curtain Fig Tree NP, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia, October