Microbes Will Be a Key Factor in Future Release of Carbon from Soil (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Microbes Will Be a Key Factor in Future Release of Carbon from Soil (1 of 2)

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Below the canopy of a mid-latitude hardwood forest at Harvard Forest, Petersham, Massachusetts. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 6 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.M. Melillo at Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA, and colleagues was titled, "Long-term pattern and magnitude of soil carbon feedback to the climate system in a warming world."

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Audrey Barker Plotkin

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