What Happens To a Rainforest When You Dial Up Drought? - Linnea Honeker and Malak Tfaily

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. Links from this episode:Submit your own proposal to work with the JGIJoin us at the 2024 JGI User MeetingFICUS programFind all episode transcripts on our websitePaper: Drought re-routes soil microbial carbon metabolism towards emission of volatile metabolites in an artificial tropical rainforest  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-023-01507-7Our contact info:Twitter: @JGIEmail: jgi-comms at lbl dot gov