"Soil carbon storage capacity of drylands under altered fire regimes"

October 05, 2023
A photo of an expansive honey-colored grassland under a soft blue sky is overlaid with the text "'Soil carbon storage capacity of drylands under altered fire regimes' published in Nature Climate Change."

Department of Forest Resources Research Professor Peter Reich is a co-author of "Soil carbon storage capacity of drylands under altered fire regime," which was recently published in Nature Climate Change. According to the team's research, "ongoing declines in fire frequencies have probably created an extensive carbon sink in the soils of global drylands that may have been underestimated by ecosystem models."