Tree diversity and carbon storage cobenefits in tropical human‐dominated landscapes
| Autor: | Ruth DeFries, Siddarth Machado, Jayashree Ratnam, N. Ayyappan, Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy, B.R. Ramesh, Raphaël Pélissier, Mahesh Sankaran, Anand M. Osuri, S. Muthuramkumar, Shahid Naeem |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Columbia University [New York], Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory [Fort Collins] (NREL), Colorado State University [Fort Collins] (CSU), Institut Français de Pondichéry (IFP), Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères (MEAE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Analytical and Biophysical Environmental Chemistry (CABE), University of Geneva, Sciences II, Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations (UMR AMAP), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0106 biological sciences
lcsh:QH1-199.5 Tropical forests forest degradation Biodiversity Distribution (economics) Climate change lcsh:General. Including nature conservation geographical distribution [SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics Phylogenetics and taxonomy 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Basal area [SDV.EE.ECO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology environment/Ecosystems Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Nature and Landscape Conservation tropical forests Biomass (ecology) Ecology Agroforestry business.industry 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology wood density 15. Life on land [SDV.BV.BOT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biology/Botanics carbon storage Biodiversity hotspot Tree density Xood density Western Ghats meta-analysis Carbon storage Meta-analysis basal area Climate change mitigation Geography climate change 13. Climate action meta‐analysis biodiversity conservation tree density [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology business |
| Zdroj: | Conservation Letters, Vol 13, Iss 2, Pp n/a-n/a (2020) Conservation Letters Conservation Letters, Wiley, 2020, 13 (2), pp.e12699. ⟨10.1111/conl.12699⟩ Conservation Letters, Wiley, In press, pp.e12699. ⟨10.1111/conl.12699⟩ Conservation Letters, 2020, 13 (2), pp.e12699. ⟨10.1111/conl.12699⟩ |
| ISSN: | 1755-263X |
| Popis: | International audience; A lack of spatial congruence between carbon storage and biodiversity in intact forests suggests limited cobenefits of carbon-focused policies for conserving tropical biodiversity. However, whether the same applies in tropical human-dominated landscapes (HDLs) is unclear. In India's Western Ghats Biodiversity Hotspot, we found that while HDL forests harbor lower tree diversity and aboveground carbon stocks than relatively intact forests, positive diversity-carbon correlations are more prevalent in HDLs. This is because anthropogenic drivers of species loss in HDLs consistently reduce carbon storing biomass volume (lower basal area), and biomass per unit volume (fewer hard-wood trees). We further show, using a meta-analysis spanning multiple regions, that these patterns apply to tropical HDLs more generally. Thus, while complementary strategies are needed for securing the irreplaceable biodiversity and carbon values of intact forests, ubiquitous tropical HDLs might hold greater potential for synergizing biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation. K E Y W O R D S basal area, biodiversity conservation, carbon storage, climate change, forest degradation, meta-analysis, tree density, tropical forests, Western Ghats, wood density This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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