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As tropical forests worldwide degrade and decline at increasing rates, the fate of their largest trees remains uncertain.
On today’s episode, Evan Gora tells Aaron Scott about a few of his shocking discoveries in lightning research, and why Evan says he’s developed a healthy respect for the hazards it poses, both to individual researchers and to the forests that life on Earth depends on.
Lightning, drought, and invasive pests tend to slay the largest trees.
As these lianas overtake trees, the forests will inhale less CO2, worsening climate change.
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Join a museum intern on a visit to Panama’s Barro Colorado Island to celebrate 100 years of scientific discovery.
Mongabay interviewed study co-authors Jane Lucas, who is now doing a postdoc at the University of Idaho, and Evan Gora, who is now doing a postdoc at the University of Louisville, to hear what they learned.
On Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal, scientists map lightning strikes and find that they kill mainly the loftiest trees, likely disturbing the forest ecology.