Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

A Carbon Budget for North American Wetlands

     I have also been extensively involved as the lead author of the wetlands chapter for the The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR): North American Carbon Budget and Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle (2007), published by the U.S. Climate Change Program.  This was written for a general audience, with a large appendix containing the methodological details.  We also published this assessment separately in a more standard format as the first in a new series of featured reviews in the journal Wetlands (Bridgham et al. 2006).  This assessment involved not only a thorough review of the published literature, but also a significant amount of new analyses of national soil and carbon databases.  It is also an important component of the overall North American carbon assessment, for which I am a co-author.

Entire SOCCR report

Wetlands article

PowerPoint presentation

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