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In Depth: Brazil's underprotected Cerrado savanna stores a staggering amount of carbon, study finds
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Live uses this report to examine Brazil's underprotected savanna stores a staggering amount of finds.
The largely overlooked in and policy, is a critical sink, according to new Feed your curiosity with an exclusive mystery every week, solved with and delivered direct to your inbox before it's seen anywhere else.
This savanna's wetlands also have another superpower: storing in their waterlogged soils. According to a new paper published today in New Phytologist , the Cerrado's wetlands store at a density about six times greater than the Amazon rainforest 's vegetation.
Previous studies in the indicated that its soils held high amounts of But researchers typically did not dig deeper than about a meter or expand their sampling beyond a few high-elevation areas in the region.
The report closes by linking the event to broader consequences.
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