“From marine micro-organisms to mountain ecosystems” Welcome to the official blog of the Biogeosciences (BG) Division of the European Geoscience Union! This blog is run by biogeoscience enthusiasts with very different backgrounds, ranging from plantecophysiology over geology to geomicrobiology. Therefore we think that the variety of posts, will make this blog interesting for all intere ...[Read More]
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In order to understand the effect of climate extreme events like droughts on the carbon balance of mountain alpine pastures, rain-out shelters are used to simulate drought events while carbon pools and fluxes are being measured (credit: Johannes Ingrisch).