Completed Competitive Grant

Soil carbon quality and interactions in Iowa wetlands

Project ID: 2001-47

Abstract

Most of Iowa's wetlands have been drained, tiled, and cultivated. This project looked at how carbon sequestration has been affected and what might be done to help improve the situation. Researchers collected GPS coordinates of all the sites samples so that in the future someone can return to the sites and determine the amount of change in organic carbon or other properties that have occurred over time.

Lead investigator: T.E. Fenton, ISU Agronomy, et al

Year of grant completion: 2003

This competitive grant project was part of the Leopold Center's Initiative.

Topics: Conservation practices, Water quality, quantity and management

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