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Secondary forest fragments offer important carbon and biodiversity cobenefits.
Matos, Fabio A R; Magnago, Luiz F S; Aquila Chan Miranda, Carlos; de Menezes, Luis F T; Gastauer, Markus; Safar, Nathália V H; Schaefer, Carlos E G R; da Silva, Mônica P; Simonelli, Marcelo; Edwards, Felicity A; Martins, Sebastião V; Meira-Neto, João A A; Edwards, David P.
Afiliação
  • Matos FAR; Laboratory of Ecology and Evolution of Plants (LEEP), Botany Graduate Program (PPGBot), Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV), Viçosa, Brazil.
  • Magnago LFS; Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
  • Aquila Chan Miranda C; Departamento de Biologia Geral, Faculdade Zacaria de Góes, Valença, Brazil.
  • de Menezes LFT; Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (CEUNES/DCAB), São Mateus, Brazil.
  • Gastauer M; Centro de Formação em Ciências e Tecnologias Agroflorestais, Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia, Ilhéus, Brazil.
  • Safar NVH; Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
  • Schaefer CEGR; Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (CEUNES/DCAB), São Mateus, Brazil.
  • da Silva MP; Instituto Tecnológico Vale, Belém, Brazil.
  • Simonelli M; Núcleo Terrantar, Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV), Viçosa, Brazil.
  • Edwards FA; Núcleo Terrantar, Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV), Viçosa, Brazil.
  • Martins SV; Departamento de Biologia Geral, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Baiano, Valença, Brazil.
  • Meira-Neto JAA; Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil.
  • Edwards DP; Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
Glob Chang Biol ; 26(2): 509-522, 2020 02.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31486174
Tropical forests store large amounts of carbon and high biodiversity, but are being degraded at alarming rates. The emerging global Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) agenda seeks to limit global climate change by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through the growth of trees. In doing so, it may also protect biodiversity as a free cobenefit, which is vital given the massive shortfall in funding for biodiversity conservation. We investigated whether natural forest regeneration on abandoned pastureland offers such cobenefits, focusing for the first time on the recovery of taxonomic diversity (TD), phylogenetic diversity (PD) and functional diversity (FD) of trees, including the recovery of threatened and endemic species richness, within isolated secondary forest (SF) fragments. We focused on the globally threatened Brazilian Atlantic Forest, where commitments have been made to restore 1 million hectares under FLR. Three decades after land abandonment, regenerating forests had recovered ~20% (72 Mg/ha) of the above-ground carbon stocks of a primary forest (PF), with cattle pasture containing just 3% of stocks relative to PFs. Over this period, SF recovered ~76% of TD, 84% of PD and 96% of FD found within PFs. In addition, SFs had on average recovered 65% of threatened and ~30% of endemic species richness of primary Atlantic forest. Finally, we find positive relationships between carbon stock and tree diversity recovery. Our results emphasize that SF fragments offer cobenefits under FLR and other carbon-based payments for ecosystem service schemes (e.g. carbon enhancements under REDD+). They also indicate that even isolated patches of SF could help to mitigate climate change and the biodiversity extinction crisis by recovering species of high conservation concern and improving landscape connectivity.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Florestas / Ecossistema Limite: Animals País/Região como assunto: America do sul / Brasil Idioma: En Revista: Glob Chang Biol Ano de publicação: 2020 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Brasil País de publicação: Reino Unido
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Florestas / Ecossistema Limite: Animals País/Região como assunto: America do sul / Brasil Idioma: En Revista: Glob Chang Biol Ano de publicação: 2020 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Brasil País de publicação: Reino Unido