“The outcome of this project will help us to understand the Amazonian forest system before we all destroy it completely” The Amazon Rainforest in South America represents the Earth´s largest rainforest, housing at least 10% of the world´s known biodiversity and consisting of more than 350 billion individual trees. Besides its large diversity in floral and faunal species, the Amazonian ...[Read More]
Sky-scraping Biogeoscience at 325m above the Amazonian rainforest
![Sky-scraping Biogeoscience at 325m above the Amazonian rainforest](https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/bg/files/2016/02/ATTO-complete-from-botton-2-e1454668747690-700x400.jpg)
The 325m high Amazonian Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO) will give researchers an insight in greenhouse gases, reactive trace gases, aerosols and atmospheric transport processes at a height above the surface layer of the largest forest system of the world (credit: Susanne Benner/ Max Planck Institute for Chemistry).