Underground Soil Economy: Microbes hidden in the dirt react to UV boost

Where the sun never shines, underground microbial communities still change when there’s extra radiation up above, says an international research team.

LAPLAND LAB. A heath in Sweden became an outdoor test site. Gwynn-Jones

In a 5-year test in northern Sweden, aboveground plants didn’t show major responses to experimentally boosted ultraviolet (UV) radiation, says David Johnson of the University of Sheffield in England.