“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
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).