Mori, AS;
Dee, LE;
Gonzalez, A;
Ohashi, H;
Cowles, J;
Wright, AJ;
Loreau, M;
... Isbell, F; + view all
(2021)
Biodiversity-productivity relationships are key to nature-based climate solutions.
Nature Climate Change
, 11
pp. 543-550.
10.1038/s41558-021-01062-1.
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Abstract
The global impacts of biodiversity loss and climate change are interlinked, but the feedbacks between them are rarely assessed. Areas with greater tree diversity tend to be more productive, providing a greater carbon sink, and biodiversity loss could reduce these natural carbon sinks. Here, we quantify how tree and shrub species richness could affect biomass production on biome, national and regional scales. We find that GHG mitigation could help maintain tree diversity and thereby avoid a 9–39% reduction in terrestrial primary productivity across different biomes, which could otherwise occur over the next 50 years. Countries that will incur the greatest economic damages from climate change stand to benefit the most from conservation of tree diversity and primary productivity, which contribute to climate change mitigation. Our results emphasize an opportunity for a triple win for climate, biodiversity and society, and highlight that these co-benefits should be the focus of reforestation programmes.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Biodiversity-productivity relationships are key to nature-based climate solutions |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41558-021-01062-1 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01062-1 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | ECOSYSTEM SERVICES, FOREST MANAGEMENT, FUTURE, MODEL, DISPERSAL, KNOWLEDGE, ABUNDANCE, IMPACTS, ISSUES, SCALE |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Genetics, Evolution and Environment |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10130032 |
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