Title: | Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome |
Authors: | Sullivan, Martin J.P. Talbot, Joey Lewis, Simon L. Phillips, Oliver L. Qie, Lan Begne, Serge K. Chave, Jérôme Cuni, Sanchez, Aida Hubau, Wannes Lopez-Gonzalez, Gabriela Miles, Lera Monteagudo-Mendoza, Abel Sonké, Bonaventure Sunderland, Terry Ch ter Steege, H. White, Lee J.T. Affum-Baffoe, Kofi Aiba, Shinichiro Almeida, Everton Cristo de Oliveira, Eddie Lenza de Álvarez-Loayza, Patricia Dávila, Esteban Álvarez Andrade, Ana C.S. Aragao, L. E.O.C. Ashton, Peter Shaw Aymard, Gerardo Antonio C. Baker, Timothy R. Balinga, Michael P.Bessike Banin, Lindsay F. Baraloto, Christopher Bastin, Jean François Berry, Nicholas J. Bogaert, Jan Bonal, Damien Bongers, Frans Brienen, Roel J.W. Camargo, José Luís Campana Cerón, Carlos E. Moscoso, Victor Chama Chézeaux, Éric Clark, Connie J. Pacheco, Álvaro Cogollo Comiskey, James A. Valverde, Fernando Cornejo Honorio Coronado, Euridice N. Dargie, Greta C. Davies, Stuart James Cannière, Charles de Djuikouo, Marie Noël K. Doucet, Jean Louis Erwin, Terry L. Espejo, Javier Silva Ewango, Corneille E.N. Fauset, Sophie Feldpausch, Ted R. Herrera, Rafael A. Gilpin, Martin Gloor, Manuel E. Hall, Jefferson Scott Harris, David J. Hart, Terese B. Kartawinata, Kuswata Kho, Lip Khoon Kitayama, Kanehiro Laurance, Susan G.W. Laurance, William F. Leal, Miguel E. Lovejoy, Thomas E. Lovett, Jon C. Lukasu, Faustin Mpanya Makana, Jean Rémy Malhi, Yadvinder Singh Maracahipes, Leandro Marimon, Beatriz Schwantes Marimon Júnior, Ben Hur Marshall, Andrew Robert Morandi, Paulo Sérgio Mukendi, John Tshibamba Mukinzi, Jacques Nilus, Reuben Vargas, Percy Núñez Pallqui Camacho, Nadir Carolina Pardo, Guido Pena-Claros, Marielos Pétronelli, Pascal Pickavance, Georgia C. Poulsen, Axel Dalberg Poulsen, John R. Primack, Richard B. Priyadi, Hari R. Quesada, Carlos Alberto Reitsma, Jan M. Réjou-Méchain, Maxime Restrepo, Zorayda Rutishauser, Ervan Salim, Kamariah Abu Salomão, Rafael Paiva Samsoedin, Ismayadi Sheil, Douglas Sierra, Rodrigo Silveira, Marcos Slik, J. W.Ferry Steel, Lisa Taedoumg, Hermann E. Tan, Sylvester Kheng San Terborgh, John W. Thomas, Sean C. Toledo, Marisol Umunay, Peter M. Gamarra, Luis Valenzuela Guimarães Vieira, Ima Cèlia Vos, Vincent A. Wang, Ophelia Willcock, Simon Zemagho, Lise A. |
Keywords: | Carbon Africa Asia Biodiversity Chemistry Classification Forest Plant Tropic Climate Western Hemisphere Africa Americas Asia Biodiversity Carbon Forests Plants Tropical Climate |
Issue Date: | 2017 |
metadata.dc.publisher.journal: | Scientific Reports |
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: | Volume 7 |
Abstract: | Tropical forests are global centres of biodiversity and carbon storage. Many tropical countries aspire to protect forest to fulfil biodiversity and climate mitigation policy targets, but the conservation strategies needed to achieve these two functions depend critically on the tropical forest tree diversity-carbon storage relationship. Assessing this relationship is challenging due to the scarcity of inventories where carbon stocks in aboveground biomass and species identifications have been simultaneously and robustly quantified. Here, we compile a unique pan-Tropical dataset of 360 plots located in structurally intact old-growth closed-canopy forest, surveyed using standardised methods, allowing a multi-scale evaluation of diversity-carbon relationships in tropical forests. Diversity-carbon relationships among all plots at 1 ha scale across the tropics are absent, and within continents are either weak (Asia) or absent (Amazonia, Africa). A weak positive relationship is detectable within 1 ha plots, indicating that diversity effects in tropical forests may be scale dependent. The absence of clear diversity-carbon relationships at scales relevant to conservation planning means that carbon-centred conservation strategies will inevitably miss many high diversity ecosystems. As tropical forests can have any combination of tree diversity and carbon stocks both require explicit consideration when optimising policies to manage tropical carbon and biodiversity. © The Author(s) 2017. |
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: | 10.1038/srep39102 |
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