How forests smell: Investigating how biodiversity affects the atmosphere

Plants emit odors for a variety of reasons, such as to communicate with one another, to deter herbivores or to respond to changing environmental conditions. An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Leipzig University, the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) and the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) carried out a study to investigate how biodiversity influences the emission of these substances.