A list of puns related to "Biosphere 2"
This is an incredible example of how controlled environments can be used for ecology research. Click this link for the NatGeo article, and click this link for the original research paper, published in Nature. I've included some excerpts below.
"The worldβs hottest rainforest is located not in the Amazon or anywhere else you might expect, but inside Biosphere 2, the experimental scientific research facility in the desert outside Tucson, Arizona. A recent study of tropical trees planted there in the early 1990s reported a surprising result: They have withstood temperatures higher than any likely to be experienced by tropical forests this century."
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"Biosphere 2 provided a rare opportunity to put a full-sized forest to a climate test. Though best known for the crews of people who were sequestered inside between 1991 and 1994, the facility also houses artificial ecosystems. Among them is a roughly half-acre tropical rainforest inside a glass pyramid-shaped structure whose apex rises nearly 100 feet (30 meters) above the desert floor. The tops of trees planted there in the early 1990s now push against the ceiling."
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