Carbon - removal activities can also trigger emissions elsewhere, such as if planting trees
on agricultural land leads to trees being cut down elsewhere to meet growing food demands.
Joining Ale
on the publication were
lead author Pradip Adhikari, Ale's former postdoctoral student now at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma; Nina Omani, postdoctoral research associate, and Dr. Paul DeLaune, environmental soil scientist, both with AgriLife Research at Vernon; and collaborators from the Arid
Land Agricultural Research Center in Maricopa, Arizona; Cotton Incorporated in Cary, North Carolina; and the University of Florida in Gainesville.