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Soil respiration (SR) plays a major role in moving carbon from the ecosystem to the atmosphere. Converting land for agricultural use accelerates CO2 emissions via SR. Planting trees (afforestation) has been heralded as a potential climate change mitigation approach. However, new research suggests that the effects of agricultural practices on peatland remain for decades and can continue to ...
For instance, her team recognized that much of the nutrients in the Mississippi River originated from agricultural runoff caused by increased fertilizer application and artificial soil drainage. Such efforts have delineated the relationship between a large, nutrient-rich river, its watershed, the nutrients in the discharge, and the coastal ecosystem, and have ...