What Happens To a Rainforest When You Dial Up Drought? - Linnea Honeker and Malak Tfaily
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English - May 30, 2024 12:00 - 22 minutes - 15.8 MBLife Sciences Science Nature science biology plants microbes genes genomics transcriptomics ecosystems sequencing synthesis Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, researchers take a look at what happens to that storage when a rainforest hits a drought. Tag along with their experiments in a fully enclosed, human-made ecosystem: Biosphere 2.
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