Thursday, December 27th, 2012
Stephan: One of the things about fooling with major ecosystems to satisfy some short-term profit motive is that what we think we know is never the whole story. There are always unintended consequences, and they are usually negative and unhappy, as this report describes.
The study's findings are described in detail in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have uncovered evidence that suggests that Amazon deforestation is devastating microbial communities.
‘We found that after rainforest conversion to agricultural pastures, bacterial communities were significantly different from those of forest soils,
