“Folks can easily see and understand how tropical deforestation removes carbon from the landscape and emits it to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide,” says Seth Spawn of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, US. “But in the US and other more temperate areas, land-use change disproportionately affects grassland ecosystems where – being stored underground – the vulnerable carbon is far less visible, but nevertheless abundant.”
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