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Co-benefits of protecting mangroves for biodiversity conservation and carbon storage
- Source :
- Nature Communications, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2021), Nature Communications
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Nature Portfolio, 2021.
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Abstract
- The conservation of ecosystems and their biodiversity has numerous co-benefits, both for local societies and for humankind worldwide. While the co-benefit of climate change mitigation through so called blue carbon storage in coastal ecosystems has raised increasing interest in mangroves, the relevance of multifaceted biodiversity as a driver of carbon storage remains unclear. Sediment salinity, taxonomic diversity, functional diversity and functional distinctiveness together explain 69%, 69%, 27% and 61% of the variation in above- and belowground plant biomass carbon, sediment organic carbon and total ecosystem carbon storage, respectively, in the Sundarbans Reserved Forest. Functional distinctiveness had the strongest explanatory power for carbon storage, indicating that blue carbon in mangroves is driven by the functional composition of diverse tree assemblages. Protecting and restoring mangrove biodiversity with site-specific dominant species and other species of contrasting functional traits would have the co-benefit of maximizing their capacity for climate change mitigation through increased carbon storage.<br />Conserving mangrove biodiversity has numerous co-benefits, including climate change-mitigation. Here the authors demonstrate that blue carbon storage in mangroves can be best sustained by combining site-specific dominant species with other species with contrasting functional traits.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Carbon Sequestration
Conservation of Natural Resources
Geologic Sediments
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Science
Biodiversity
General Physics and Astronomy
Carbon sequestration
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Article
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Environmental impact
Blue carbon
Ecosystem services
Ecosystem
Biomass
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Total organic carbon
Biomass (ecology)
Multidisciplinary
Ecology
Wetlands ecology
Carbon cycle
General Chemistry
Models, Theoretical
Carbon
Climate change mitigation
Environmental science
Avicennia
Mangrove
Algorithms
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20411723
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nature Communications
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2fa3e1ab0877e7951a0c0eaaf715c993