Carbon Sequestration Potential of Latin American Second-Growth Forests (2 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Carbon Sequestration Potential of Latin American Second-Growth Forests (2 of 4)

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Recovering dry forest landscape in the hilly region of Hojancha in northwestern Costa Rica with patches of second-growth replacing former pastures. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 13, 2016, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by R.L. Chazdon at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Conn., and colleagues was titled, "Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics."

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