North American prairie wetlands are important non-forested land-based carbon storage sites

We evaluated the potential of prairie wetlands in North America as carbon sinks. Agricultural conversion has resulted in the average loss of 10.1 Mg ha(-1) of soil organic carbon on over 16 million ha of wetlands in this region. Wetland restoration has potential to sequester 378 Tg of organic carbon...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Science of the total environment 2006-05, Vol.361 (1-3), p.179-188
Hauptverfasser:	Euliss, Jr, Ned H, Gleason, R A, Olness, A, McDougal, R L, Murkin, H R, Robarts, R D, Bourbonniere, R A, Warner, B G
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Agriculture Canada Carbon - analysis Conservation of Natural Resources Soil - analysis United States
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