A photo provided by Ben Turner, shows, One of Dr Andrew Nottingham’s soil profile pits in Panama. Warming soils in the tropics could cause microbes to release carbon dioxide from storage.

Andrew T. Nottingham, Patrick Meir, Esther Velasquez, Benjamin L. Turner. Soil carbon loss by experimental warming in a tropical forest. Nature, 2020; 584 (7820): 234 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2566-4 ...

Daniela F. Cusack, Jordan Macy, William H. McDowell, Nitrogen additions mobilize soil base cations in two tropical forests, Biogeochemistry, Vol. 128, No. 1/2 (March 2016), pp. 67-88 ...

"Tropical forests adjust strategies to thrive even when soils are nutrient poor." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 6 June 2024. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 06 / 240606152148.htm>.

Tropical forests are the most carbon (C)-rich ecosystems on Earth, containing 25–40% of global terrestrial C stocks. While large-scale quantification of aboveground biomass in tropical forests has ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A germ that causes a rare and sometimes deadly disease — long thought to be confined to tropical climates — has been found in soil and water in the continental United States ...

Tropical forests store a third of the world&rsquo;s carbon in their wood and soils. However, their future as a carbon sink has been uncertain. Scientists have long wondered whether nutrient-poor ...