Mm.

They contribute a lot to s- soil carbon storage, and oftentimes they're thought to be more resilient or important in some ways, um, in response to changing climates.

And that's because when you have these massive wildfires that come through that we've seen or these mega droughts, like from 2012 to 2016, plants experience mortality, and in forests, trees will die.

In grasslands, plants will die too.

But if you look at a forest, a redwood, for example, is like 30 stories tall, 40 stories tall, and when that dies, it releases all that carbon dioxide when it burns or dies through drought, and it has a lot of biomass below ground, too.

But if we think about a grass, it has a lot of biomass below ground, but oftentimes it only grows up to our waist, for example.

And so when they burn or when they die, it releases a lot less carbon above ground back into the atmosphere, and there's been a lot of studies that show that grasslands contribute a lot less CO2 emissions during wildfires, and we know we're going to have a lot more wildfires.

So I guess the first one we could talk about, like, the roots and the relationship between erosion and flooding and the native versus non-native grasses.