Researchers are inducing a drought in an Australian rainforest to study its effects

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By <a class="author-link"…Nov 24, 2015, 10:20 pm122 pts
Susan Laurance and colleagues at James Cook University in Australia wanted to study how different groups of plants in tropical forests are affected by drought. So a few months ago, the researchers used 3,000 clear plastic panels to create what they call a “raincoat for a rainforest,” artificially inducing…

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