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Human impacts as the main driver of tropical forest carbon

Understanding the mechanisms controlling forest carbon storage is crucial to support “nature-based” solutions for climate change mitigation. We used a dataset of 892 Atlantic Forest inventories to assess the direct and indirect effects of environmental conditions, human impacts, tree community propr...

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Autores principales: Pyles, Marcela Venelli, Magnago, Luiz Fernando Silva, Maia, Vinícius Andrade, Pinho, Bruno X., Pitta, Gregory, de Gasper, André L., Vibrans, Alexander C., dos Santos, Rubens Manoel, van den Berg, Eduardo, Lima, Renato A. F.
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Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9205592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35714191
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abl7968
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author Pyles, Marcela Venelli
Magnago, Luiz Fernando Silva
Maia, Vinícius Andrade
Pinho, Bruno X.
Pitta, Gregory
de Gasper, André L.
Vibrans, Alexander C.
dos Santos, Rubens Manoel
van den Berg, Eduardo
Lima, Renato A. F.
author_facet Pyles, Marcela Venelli
Magnago, Luiz Fernando Silva
Maia, Vinícius Andrade
Pinho, Bruno X.
Pitta, Gregory
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Vibrans, Alexander C.
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van den Berg, Eduardo
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description Understanding the mechanisms controlling forest carbon storage is crucial to support “nature-based” solutions for climate change mitigation. We used a dataset of 892 Atlantic Forest inventories to assess the direct and indirect effects of environmental conditions, human impacts, tree community proprieties, and sampling methods on tree above-ground carbon stocks. We showed that the widely accepted drivers of carbon stocks, such as climate, soil, topography, and forest fragmentation, have a much smaller role than the forest disturbance history and functional proprieties of the Atlantic Forest. Specifically, within-forest disturbance level was the most important driver, with effect at least 30% higher than any of the environmental conditions individually. Thus, our findings suggest that the conservation of tropical carbon stocks may be dependable on, principally, avoiding forest degradation and that conservation policies focusing only on carbon may fail to protect tropical biodiversity.
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spelling pubmed-92055922022-06-29 Human impacts as the main driver of tropical forest carbon Pyles, Marcela Venelli Magnago, Luiz Fernando Silva Maia, Vinícius Andrade Pinho, Bruno X. Pitta, Gregory de Gasper, André L. Vibrans, Alexander C. dos Santos, Rubens Manoel van den Berg, Eduardo Lima, Renato A. F. Sci Adv Earth, Environmental, Ecological, and Space Sciences Understanding the mechanisms controlling forest carbon storage is crucial to support “nature-based” solutions for climate change mitigation. We used a dataset of 892 Atlantic Forest inventories to assess the direct and indirect effects of environmental conditions, human impacts, tree community proprieties, and sampling methods on tree above-ground carbon stocks. We showed that the widely accepted drivers of carbon stocks, such as climate, soil, topography, and forest fragmentation, have a much smaller role than the forest disturbance history and functional proprieties of the Atlantic Forest. Specifically, within-forest disturbance level was the most important driver, with effect at least 30% higher than any of the environmental conditions individually. Thus, our findings suggest that the conservation of tropical carbon stocks may be dependable on, principally, avoiding forest degradation and that conservation policies focusing only on carbon may fail to protect tropical biodiversity. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2022-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9205592/ /pubmed/35714191 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abl7968 Text en Copyright © 2022 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited.
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Pyles, Marcela Venelli
Magnago, Luiz Fernando Silva
Maia, Vinícius Andrade
Pinho, Bruno X.
Pitta, Gregory
de Gasper, André L.
Vibrans, Alexander C.
dos Santos, Rubens Manoel
van den Berg, Eduardo
Lima, Renato A. F.
Human impacts as the main driver of tropical forest carbon
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title_short Human impacts as the main driver of tropical forest carbon
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topic Earth, Environmental, Ecological, and Space Sciences
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9205592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35714191
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abl7968
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