1. Comment on 'The global tree restoration potential'
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Thomas W. Boutton, Jayashree Ratnam, Forrest Fleischman, Reed F. Noss, Nicola Stevens, Michele de Sá Dechoum, Grégory Mahy, Swanni T. Alvarado, Josep G. Canadell, Christine B. Schmitt, Catherine L. Parr, Juli G. Pausas, A. Carla Staver, Fernando A. O. Silveira, Gerhard E. Overbeck, J. Morgan Varner, Caroline E. R. Lehmann, Alessandra Fidelis, Milton H. Díaz-Toribio, Elise Buisson, Isabel Belloni Schmidt, William J. Bond, Soizig Le Stradic, Nicholas P. Zaloumis, Joseph W. Veldman, John J. Ewel, William A. Hoffmann, Caroline A.E. Strömberg, Ashish N. Nerlekar, Daniel M. Griffith, R. Toby Pennington, Julie C. Aleman, Stephen P. Good, Nina Buchmann, G. Wilson Fernandes, Mahesh Sankaran, Jesse B. Nippert, Colin P. Osborne, Francis E. Putz, Michael P. Perring, T. Michael Anderson, Sally Archibald, Christopher J. Still, Giselda Durigan, Vicky M. Temperton, Julia-Maria Hermann, Texas A&M University [College Station], Université de Montréal (UdeM), Universidade Estadual do Maranhão = State University of Maranhão (UEMA), University of the Witwatersrand [Johannesburg] (WITS), Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Institute of Agricultural Sciences [Zürich], Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale (IMBE), Avignon Université (AU)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UMR237-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Oceans and Atmosphere Flagship (CSIRO), CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Flagship, Instituto Florestal do Estado de São Paulo, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais = Federal University of Minas Gerais [Belo Horizonte, Brazil] (UFMG), Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho = São Paulo State University (UNESP), Technische Universität Munchen - Université Technique de Munich [Munich, Allemagne] (TUM), University of Edinburgh, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech [Gembloux], Université de Liège, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul [Porto Alegre] (UFRGS), University of Liverpool, Center for Desertification Research (CIDE), Universitat de València (UV), Royal Botanic Garden [Edinburgh], The University of Western Australia (UWA), University of Florida [Gainesville] (UF), Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory [Fort Collins] (NREL), Colorado State University [Fort Collins] (CSU), Universidade de Brasilia [Brasília] (UnB), University of Freiburg [Freiburg], Universität Bonn = University of Bonn, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais [Belo Horizonte] (UFMG), Yale University [New Haven], Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Swiss National Science Foundation, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (Brasil), National Science Foundation (US), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo Minas Gerais, Royal Society (UK), German Research Foundation, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Pausas, J. G. [0000-0003-3533-5786], Universidade Estadual de Maranhão, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UMR237-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Avignon Université (AU), Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, University of Bonn, and Pausas, J. G.
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0106 biological sciences ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Tree planting ,[SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes ,Climate change ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Shrubland ,Latitude ,Afforestation ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Organic carbon ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,2. Zero hunger ,geography ,Multidisciplinary ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,Forestry ,Soil carbon ,15. Life on land ,[SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environmental and Society ,Tree (data structure) ,Climate change mitigation ,Ecosystems Research ,13. Climate action ,Restoration ,[SDE]Environmental Sciences ,Environmental science ,[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology ,grassland - Abstract
Bastin et al.’s estimate (Reports, 5 July 2019, p. 76) that tree planting for climate change mitigation could sequester 205 gigatonnes of carbon is approximately five times too large. Their analysis inflated soil organic carbon gains, failed to safeguard against warming from trees at high latitudes and elevations, and considered afforestation of savannas, grasslands, and shrublands to be restoration., Funding: Supported by the Texas A&M Sid Kyle Global Savanna Research Initiative (T.W.B.); Swiss National Science Foundation (20FI20_173691) (N.B.); Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique CNRS PICS 2018-2020 (RESIGRASS) (E.B.); CNPq (Brazil, 303179/2016-3) (G.D.); CNPq (Brazil) (G.W.F.); CNPq (Brazil, 303988/2018-5) (A.F.); NASA award NNX17AK14G (F.F.); NSF award 1354943 (W.A.H.); Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (Brazil, 2016/13232-5) (S.L.S.); the Office of the Royal Society (IC170015) (C.E.R.L.); CNPq (Brazil, 310345/2018-9) (G.E.O.); the Spanish Government (FIROTIC, PGC2018-096569-B-I00) (J.G.P.); the National Research Foundation (ACCESS, 114695) (N.S.); CNPq (Brazil, 303568/2017-8) (F.A.O.S.); NSF awards 1342703 and 1926431 (C.J.S. and D.M.G.); NSF award EAR-1253713 (C.A.E.S.); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft grant 5579 POEM (V.M.T.); and USDA-NIFA Sustainable Agricultural Systems Grant 12726253 (J.W.V.)
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