Biodiversity in forest carbon sequestration initiatives: not just a side benefit
By Sandra Díaz, Andy Hector, David A. Wardle. 2009
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One way of mitigating global climate change is protecting and enhancing biosphere carbon stocks. The success of mitigation initiatives depends on the long-term net balance between carbon gains and losses. The biodiversity of ecological communities, including composition and variability of traits of plants and soil organisms, can alter this balance in several ways. This influence can be direct, through determining the magnitude, turnover rate, and longevity of carbon stocks in soil and vegetation. It can also be indirect through influencing the value and therefore the protection that societies give to ecosystems and their carbon stocks. Biodiversity of forested ecosystems has important consequences for long-term carbon storage, and thus warrants incorporation into the design, implementation, and regulatory framework of mitigation initiatives.
Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Global and Planetary Change
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Citations in the corpus
- Trade-offs, co-benefits and safeguards: Current debates on the breadth of REDD+. (2012, background): “highlight that the different components of biodiversity have the potential to influence carbon sequestration and can enhance the potential of climate change mitigation initiatives [33 ], and Thompson et al.”
- Linking vegetation change, carbon sequestration and biodiversity: insights from island ecosystems in a long‐term natural experiment (2012, background): “20 However, there have been few empirical tests of whether biodiversity and C sequestration are driven by 21 the same factors or whether management for one of these properties also maximizes the other (Huston 22 & Marland 2003; Díaz et al. 2009).”
- Impact of climate change on biodiversity and associated key ecosystem services in Africa: a systematic review (2018, background): “…the long-term balance of carbon gains and losses in ecosystems through different components of the carbon cycle, including the magnitude, turnover, and longevity of carbon stocks in soils and vegetation (Díaz, Hector, and Wardle 2009; Murphy et al. 2008; Barantal et al. 2011; Maestre et al. 2012).”
- Aboveground carbon loss in natural and managed tropical forests from 2000 to 2012 (2015, background): “…a reduced importance of avoided deforestation, this fact points to the increasing significance of and need for the formal valuation of REDD+ co-benefits in the conservation of natural tropical forests (Miles and Kapos 2008, Díaz et al 2009, Phelps et al 2012, Potts et al 2013, Mullan 2014).”
- Functional attributes change but functional richness is unchanged after fragmentation of Brazilian Atlantic forests (2014, background): “Third, the apparent absence of change in wood density across the fragmentation gradient suggests that even small fragments can be important carbon stores, with potential co-benefits between carbon market payments, ecological services and biodiversity protection (Díaz et al. 2009; Phelps al. 2012).”