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  <dc:contributor>R.A. Gleason</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>A. Olness</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>R.L. McDougal</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>H.R. Murkin</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>R.D. Robarts</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>R.A. Bourbonniere</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>B.G. Warner</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>N.H. Euliss Jr.</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2006</dc:date>
  <dc:description>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 CO2 emission reported for North America in 1990. ?? 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.06.007</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:title>North American prairie wetlands are important nonforested land-based carbon storage sites</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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