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Published on: January 16, 2014
North American prairie wetlands are important non-forested land-based carbon storage sites
Ned H Euliss1, R A Gleason, A Olness
1U.S. Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, Jamestown, ND 58401-7317, USA. Ned_Euliss@usgs.gov
Abstract:
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 over a 10-year period. Wetlands can sequester over twice the organic carbon as no-till cropland on only about 17% of the total land area in the region. We estimate that wetland restoration has potential to offset 2.4% of the annual fossil CO(2) emission reported for North America in 1990.
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