Source: Dan Hawkes
A team of ESD scientists (headed by Nick Bouskill and including Hsiao
Chien Lim, Sharon Borglin, Rohit Salve, Tana Wood, Whendee Silver, and
Eoin Brodie) recently found that ten months of “throughfall exclusion”
(i.e., excluding the precipitation falling through a forest canopy)
led to a statistically significant decline in soil water potential and
bacterial populations clearly adapted to increased osmotic stress.
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Citation: Bouskill, N.J., H.C. Lim, S.E. Borglin, R. Salve, T.E. Wood,
W.L. Silver and E.L. Brodie (2012), Pre-exposure to drought increases
the resistance of tropical forest soil bacterial communities to
extended drought. ISME Journal, DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2012.113.
Funding Source: NSF, DOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD)