Sphagnum moss in bog


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Sphagnum moss makes up much of the biomass in a peatland. Hundreds of years of slowly decomposing organic matter, called peat, sequesters carbon in peatlands. A large part of the field work for this internship will involve measuring peat depth and carbon

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