The findings,
published recently
in the peer - reviewed academic
journal Nature Communications, show periodically flooded soils may actually lose organic matter at accelerated rates, said Steven Hall, an assistant professor of
ecology, evolution and organismal biology and corresponding author of the
study.
John Hargrove, a doctoral student
in UF's wildlife
ecology and conservation department, is the lead author on the
study,
published online June 5
in the
journal PLOS ONE.