In June 2022, Tatiana Reichert (TUM), Laynara Lugli (TUM), and Lucia Fuchslueger (University of Vienna) led a fieldwork campaign in a forest near Manaus, Brazil, to sample, for the first time, root carbon exudates in Amazon forests! Roots can release carbon compounds to facilitate phosphorus release from soil minerals and organic matter, and in this […]
Second root exudation field campaign in Central Amazon 2023
In May 2023, Laynara Lugli and Tatiana Reichert traveled to Manaus, Brazil, for a second time to investigate the natural variability of organic acid exudation by roots in another forest in Central Amazon. This time, sampling took place at the 6 plots belonging to the AmazonFACE experiment located near Manaus. This will be the first […]