The Fate of Carbon Stores in Drying Rainforests: Scientists Investigate.

Climate change-induced drying in tropical rainforests leads to carbon loss from the most fertile soils, which play an important role in how much carbon is released and when. Soil nutrients seem to have as big an effect as soil moisture, necessitating updates to predictive models. Different tropical forests will respond to climate change differently and on different time frames, and that fertile soils may be the first to react with big carbon losses across the tropics.