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Nature reserves may sequester significantly more carbon than high-input agricultural lands, according to comparison of Ohio sites

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Wetlands, bioenergy crops (Miscanthus), the Conservation Reserve Program, and forest located on the campus of The Ohio State University South Centers.

image: From the left are wetlands, bioenergy crops (Miscanthus), the Conservation Reserve Program, and forest located on the campus of The Ohio State University South Centers in Piketon, Ohio. view more 

Credit: Rafiq Islam, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Nature reserves may sequester significantly more carbon than high-input agricultural lands, according to comparison of Ohio sites

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0263205

Article Title: Impact of deforestation and temporal land-use change on soil organic carbon storage, quality, and lability

Author Countries: Ghana, U.S.A., Ukraine

Funding: This work was funded by the Norman Borlaug Leadership Enhancement in Agriculture Program (Borlaug LEAP) through a grant to the University of California-Davis by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). There was no additional external funding received for this study. The funders did not play any role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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