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Tropical forests are central to climate change mitigation efforts. This new study suggests that protecting the carbon of tropical forests may not be enough – biodiversity needs to be included in carbon conservation planning.
Rufous-winged antwren. Photo: Alexander Lees.
As one of Earth’s most carbon-dense regions, tropical forests are central to climate change mitigation efforts. Their unparalleled species richness also makes them vital for safeguarding biodiversity. However, because research has not been conducted at management-relevant scales and has often not accounted for forest disturbance, the biodiversity implications of carbon conservation strategies remain poorly understood.
The authors investigated tropical carbon–biodiversity relationships and trade-offs along a forest-disturbance gradient, using detailed and extensive carbon and biodiversity datasets.
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