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Sky-high race against a changing climate in the Amazon

2013-12-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Ensia: When tropical ecologist Greg Asner glances down at the Amazon tree canopy from the window of his twin-engine plane, he sees more than indeterminate treetops punctuated by looping rivers and bright bursts of flowers. With a spectrometer mounted in a shiny gold canister behind him, he is fingerprinting individual tree species in an effort to draw the first large-scale biodiversity map of the worlds biggest expanse of tropical forest. Scientists know the Amazon is astoundingly diverse, but...

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