Press release for an important new SWELTR paper about soil warming effects in lowland tropical forest: nature.com/articles/s4156… Warming decreased microbial diversity, and the rate of increase in respiratory CO2 loss exceeded predictions Smithsonian Panama STRIAcademicPrograms #Panama

Estamos felices y muy agradecidos con La Prensa Panamá por cubrir nuestro estudio sobre los impactos del cambio climático en los suelos tropicales. Suelos tropicales son altamente sensibles al calentamiento global prensa.com/vivir/suelos-t…

Sensitivity to change: STRI intern Maria Montero-Sanchez investigates the acclimation of soil microbes and respiration rates to cooling and re-warming, after SWELTR was temporarily switched off during the COVID-19 pandemic

Soil microbiota takes the heat Two studies report how soil microbiota adapts after wildfires and soil warming. nature.com/articles/s4157…

Congratulations STRI short-term fellow Esther Velasquez - exciting new research at SWELTR. Thanks to STRIAcademicPrograms for organising the symposium and to Caroline Bacquet for the inspiring keynote (↑ diversity and ↓ monoculture of scientific minds & perspectives!)

Looking forward to working with Anna Simonsen to explore the tree seedling rhizosphere microbiome in warmed tropical soils (a foundation for new projects in prep, for a deeper understanding of how the rhizosphere will shape the future of tropical forests in a changing climate!)

Just out! New directions for studying global change impacts on biogeochemical cycling in tropical forests: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… Excited to be part of this conversation: cross-site collaboration, diversity + inclusivity (Ecological Society) Big thanks2 Dra. Daniela Cusack Sasha Reed

La técnica de SWELTR Alicia Sanjur recibe a miembros de la ACP para que conozcan un poco de las investigaciones sobre efectos del cambio climático en los bosques tropicales, Canal de Panamá agradecemos su visita!

SWELTR en el reportaje del medio nacional ECO TV sobre la Isla Barro Colorado y las investigaciones que se llevan a cabo usando el bosque como laboratorio natural. ecotvpanama.com/nacionales/bar…

SWELTR parte del reportaje de #MundoVerde

Check out our latest #research - experimental warming and drying increase the age of C in soil CO2 flux in tropical forest Nature Communications PARCHEDpanama SWELTR Dra. Daniela Cusack Lee Dietterich w/Andy Nottingham, Alex Hedgpeth, & Kari Finstad rdcu.be/dRaSy

Our new paper shows that experimental warming and drying increases the age of #carbon in #soil CO2 efflux in tropical forest. Thanks to Karis McFarlane, PARCHEDpanama, Dra. Daniela Cusack, Lee Dietterich, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Smithsonian Panama, Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…