Eighty Scientists studied how the forest reacts to extreme drought in an experiment at the US research centre Biosphere 2. Photo: Michaela Dippold
Eighty Scientists studied how the forest reacts to extreme drought in an experiment at the US research centre Biosphere 2. Photo: Michaela Dippold Research team including Göttingen University participates in far-reaching study with analysis of carbon storage How do tropical rainforests and their plants react to extreme drought? Understanding these processes is crucial to making forests more resilient to the increasing risk of drought due to climate change, and will improve the scientists- ability to refine climate models. A research team led by the University of Freiburg has now conducted the most extensive experiment to date on this theme. They exposed an artificial rainforest to drought for nine-and-a-half weeks and observed which strategies different plants use to combat the drought, and how they interact with other plants, the soil and the atmosphere. The University of Göttingen performed the analysis of the carbon stocks and dynamics in the soil. The results of the study were published. Eighty scientists took part in the experiment at the US research facility Biosphere 2.
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