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Jessica Murray is a researcher who studies canopy soil. Canopy soil is formed in a tree's branches (its canopy) when dead leaves and other falling things collect. This material breaks down, becoming canopy soil. Canopy soil helps preserve healthy nutrient cycling (how nutrients move through the environment) in rainforests. This benefit is one reason Murray is interested in the canopy soils in large bully trees in rainforests in Costa Rica.