In Panama’s Santa Fe National Park, trees grow soil on their branches. Cary’s @jane-lucas-phd.bsky.social tells us more about these strange soils, and how the microbes they hold might teach us how to survive in a hotter future: www.caryinstitute.org/news-insight...
There’s a lot that scientists don’t know about canopy soil, but a new project will start to demystify this suspended substrate. Led by Jane Lucas and Evan Gora of Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, ...