"Revealing the hidden carbon in forested wetland soils," a research paper published in Nature Communications in January 2024, highlights the magnitude and distribution of "cryptic carbon" in forested regions containing soil organic carbon (SOC)-rich wetlands of the Pacific Northwest. These forested SOC-rich wetlands are not included on current maps, and therefore have been neglected. Forest Resources faculty member Chad Babcock is one of the paper's authors.
Read the full paper on the Nature Communications website to learn more.