Restored wetlands may never recover
UC BERKELEY (US) — Even after a century of restoration efforts, some wetlands are never able to return to their original natural state.“Once you degrade a wetland, it doesn’t recover its normal assemblage of plants or its rich stores of organic soil carbon, which both affect natural cycles of water and nutrients, for many years,” says David Moreno-Mateos, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. “Even after 100 years, the restored wetland is still different from what was there before, and it may never recover.”...
Source: Futurity.org - Friday, 27 January
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