What sleeps under the forest
Tuesday, October 16, 2018 - 07:10
in Earth & Climate
A largely unknown terrain begins not so far below the surface of the forest floor. While the processes in the top 30 centimetres of the soil are well known, deeper areas of the soil are the focus of a research group led by Professor Bernd Marschner from the Institute of Geography at the Faculty of Geosciences at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB). Twice as much carbon is stored here as in the atmosphere and vegetation together. How old it is, where it comes from and why nothing metabolises it is the subject of the investigations.