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The Amazon forest stores large quantities of the climate-damaging greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2). But deforestation, agriculture and rising temperatures bring this nature based solution to a limit. AmazonFACE brings together an international team of researchers aiming to address the question how the Amazon forest will respond to projected future CO2 concentrations. By using Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) technology we will generate process based understanding on the functioning of the world's largest tropical rainforest, and therefore will be able to inform regional policies on climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies.
Please see below the link to a short film produced by our colleagues at HILAEA, which documents the design of the research facility including its infrastructure and the construction of the first 2 plots consisting of 16 towers spreading elevated CO2 into the Amazon forest between August 2022 and May 2024.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/c9zF3UaVUzg?si=A3yiqZhthrFQJTGq%22
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