Hey, thanks for that reference. You're right, but the 300x potency of N2O vs CO2 and the sheer unknowns lurking in our understanding of the "earthworm problem"

Hey, thanks for that reference. You're right, but the 300x potency of N2O vs CO2 and the sheer unknowns lurking in our understanding of the "earthworm problem" still make this worth investigation, in my opinion. Additionally, at the risk of being pedantic and because I'm a stuck-up academic, I want to point out that your reference is studying a temperate forest. This is relevant not only because species composition and climatic regimes present in temperate forests (decidious trees, high species diversity, high nutrient availabilty, moderate climates) differ markedly from those of boreal forests (coniferous trees, low species diversity, low nutrient availability, extreme climatic seasonality). There's good reason to believe that this difference has a corresponding shift in the GHG emission regimes of the respective forestlands, which you can see here [0]. Additionally, boreal forests are the earth's largest terrestrial ecosystem [1], which makes this potential difference quite relevant. Your point is well taken, though -- it's important to triage effort in facing a complicated global challenge. [0]: https://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/10.1139/X08-209#.XOLSAFNKjOY https://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/10.1139/X08-209#.XOLSAF... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiga