Soil communities threatened by destruction, instability of Amazon forests

Tuesday, May 28, 2019 - 20:05 in Earth & Climate

A meta-analysis of nearly 300 studies of soil biodiversity in Amazonian forests found that the abundance, biomass, richness and diversity of soil fauna and microbes were reduced following deforestation.

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