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VCU News: Structurally complex forests better at carbon sequestration

by Will M.
Jeff W. Atkins, Ph.D., a post-doctoral researcher in VCU's Department of Biology, uses a lidar system to collect data in a forest at VCU's Rice Rivers Center in 2016. (Photo by Julia Rendleman, University Marketing)
Jeff W. Atkins, Ph.D., a post-doctoral researcher in VCU’s Department of Biology, uses a lidar system to collect data in a forest at VCU’s Rice Rivers Center in 2016. (Photo by Julia Rendleman, University Marketing)

Associate professor Chris Gough, Ph.D. and post-doctoral fellow Jeff Atkins, Ph.D. were recently featured in a VCU News article about carbon sequestration in forests.

Read the full article “Structurally complex forests better at carbon sequestration” by Brian McNeill at VCU News.

Chris Gough is an associate professor in VCU Biology, studying forest ecology.

Jeff Atkins is a post-doctoral fellow in Professor Gough’s Forest Ecology Lab.

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