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Louis Verchot - Carbon and Wetland Ecosystems

CIFOR senior scientist Louis Verchot speaks at a recent workshop on Tropical Wetland Ecosystems in Indonesia. New research by CIFOR has quantified the huge amounts of carbon stored in mangrove and peat forests particularly below the ground in the peat soil.

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