Forming an Amazon Rainforest Microbial Observatory

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Forming an Amazon Rainforest Microbial Observatory
July 16, 2009
Innovations Report

The Amazon rainforest may be the largest reservoir of soil microbes on Earth, yet researchers acknowledge that many of these organisms are almost unknown to science, according to University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist Klaus Nüsslein. What is clear, he adds, is that the area is under great threat from modern agricultural practices and now is the time to identify, collect and preserve microbe-rich soils before it’s too late.

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