Some coastal marshes may have a hard time building soil elevation under future climate conditions, although this may reduce methane emissions, according to four years of field manipulation of warming and elevated CO2 in a coastal wetland.
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O’Halloran, T.L., Seyfried, G.S. Plant traits and marsh fate. Nat. Geosci. 16, 4–5 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01108-9
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