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SUBMITTER: Bourtsoukidis E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5993744 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20180608 1
The Amazon rainforest is the world's largest source of reactive volatile isoprenoids to the atmosphere. It is generally assumed that these emissions are products of photosynthetically driven secondary metabolism and released from the rainforest canopy from where they influence the oxidative capacity of the atmosphere. However, recent measurements indicate that further sources of volatiles are present. Here we show that soil microorganisms are a strong, unaccounted source of highly reactive and p ...[more]