| Literature DB >> 16129474 |
Ned H Euliss1, R A Gleason, A Olness, R L McDougal, H R Murkin, R D Robarts, R A Bourbonniere, B G Warner.
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.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 16129474 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.06.007
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Sci Total Environ ISSN: 0048-9697 Impact factor: 7.963