Invasive grasses and wildfire can reduce ecosystem carbon storage by over 50%

Ecological disturbance can affect carbon storage and stability and is a key consideration for managing lands to preserve or increase ecosystem carbon to ameliorate the global greenhouse gas problem. Dryland soils are massive carbon reservoirs that are increasingly impacted by species invasions and altered fire regimes, including the exotic-grass-fire cycle in the extensive sagebrush steppe of Nort

Authors

Toby Matthew Maxwell, Harold E. Quicke, Samuel J. Price, Matthew Germino