Impact of improved management and patch-burn grazing on the net CO2 sink strength of subtropical humid grasslands

Nuria Gomez-Casanovas1, Carl Bernacchi2, Elizabeth Boughton3, Evan Dracup4, Steffan Pierre5, Amartya K Saha6, Raoul K Boughton7, Jed P Sparks8, Hilary Swain3 and Evan H DeLucia9, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Plant Biology, Urbana, IL, United States, (3)MacArthur Agro-ecology Research Center, Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid, FL, United States, (4)University of Illinois, Urbana, United States, (5)Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid, United States, (6)Archbold Biological Station, Venus, FL, United States, (7)University of Florida, Range Cattle Research and Education Center, Ona, FL, United States, (8)Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, United States, (9)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Center for Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation; Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment; Department of Plant Biology, Urbana, IL, United States