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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, Jerôme
Cuni-Sanchez, Aida
Hubau, Wannes
Lopez-Gonzalez, Gabriela
Miles, Lera
Monteagudo-Mendoza, Abel
Sonké, Bonaventure
Sunderland, Terry
ter Steege, Hans
White, Lee J.T.
Affum-Baffoe, Kofi
Aiba, Shin-ichiro
de Almeida, Everton Cristo
de Oliveira, Edmar Almeida
Alvarez-Loayza, Patricia
Dávila, Esteban Álvarez
Andrade, Ana
Aragão, Luiz E.O.C.
Ashton, Peter
Aymard C., Gerardo A.
Baker, Timothy R.
Balinga, Michael
Banin, Lindsay F.
Baraloto, Christopher
Bastin, Jean-Francois
Berry, Nicholas
Bogaert, Jan
Bonal, Damien
Bongers, Frans
Brienen, Roel
Camargo, José Luís C.
Cerón, Carlos
Moscoso, Victor Chama
Chezeaux, Eric
Clark, Connie J.
Pacheco, Álvaro Cogollo
Comiskey, James A.
Valverde, Fernando Cornejo
Coronado, Eurídice N. Honorio
Dargie, Greta
Davies, Stuart J.
De Canniere, Charles
Djuikouo K., Marie Noel
Doucet, Jean-Louis
Erwin, Terry L.
Espejo, Javier Silva
Ewango, Corneille E.N.
Fauset, Sophie
Feldpausch, Ted R.
Herrera, Rafael
Gilpin, Martin
Gloor, Emanuel
Hall, Jefferson S.
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
Lovett, Jon C.
Lukasu, Faustin Mpanya
Makana, Jean-Remy
Malhi, Yadvinder
Maracahipes, Leandro
Marimon, Beatriz S.
Junior, Ben Hur Marimon
Marshall, Andrew R.
Morandi, Paulo S.
Mukendi, John Tshibamba
Mukinzi, Jaques
Nilus, Reuben
Vargas, Percy Núñez
Camacho, Nadir C. Pallqui
Pardo, Guido
Peña-Claros, Marielos
Pétronelli, Pascal
Pickavance, Georgia C.
Poulsen, Axel Dalberg
Poulsen, John R.
Primack, Richard B.
Priyadi, Hari
Quesada, Carlos A.
Reitsma, Jan
Réjou-Méchain, Maxime
Restrepo, Zorayda
Rutishauser, Ervan
Salim, Kamariah Abu
Salomão, Rafael P.
Samsoedin, Ismayadi
Sheil, Douglas
Sierra, Rodrigo
Silveira, Marcos
Slik, J.W. Ferry
Steel, Lisa
Taedoumg, Hermann
Tan, Sylvester
Terborgh, John W.
Thomas, Sean C.
Toledo, Marisol
Umunay, Peter M.
Gamarra, Luis Valenzuela
Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães
Vos, Vincent A.
Wang, Ophelia
Willcock, Simon
Zemagho, Lise
Sullivan, Martin J.P.
Talbot, Joey
Lewis, Simon L.
Phillips, Oliver L.
Qie, Lan
Begne, Serge K.
Chave, Jerôme
Cuni-Sanchez, Aida
Hubau, Wannes
Lopez-Gonzalez, Gabriela
Miles, Lera
Monteagudo-Mendoza, Abel
Sonké, Bonaventure
Sunderland, Terry
ter Steege, Hans
White, Lee J.T.
Affum-Baffoe, Kofi
Aiba, Shin-ichiro
de Almeida, Everton Cristo
de Oliveira, Edmar Almeida
Alvarez-Loayza, Patricia
Dávila, Esteban Álvarez
Andrade, Ana
Aragão, Luiz E.O.C.
Ashton, Peter
Aymard C., Gerardo A.
Baker, Timothy R.
Balinga, Michael
Banin, Lindsay F.
Baraloto, Christopher
Bastin, Jean-Francois
Berry, Nicholas
Bogaert, Jan
Bonal, Damien
Bongers, Frans
Brienen, Roel
Camargo, José Luís C.
Cerón, Carlos
Moscoso, Victor Chama
Chezeaux, Eric
Clark, Connie J.
Pacheco, Álvaro Cogollo
Comiskey, James A.
Valverde, Fernando Cornejo
Coronado, Eurídice N. Honorio
Dargie, Greta
Davies, Stuart J.
De Canniere, Charles
Djuikouo K., Marie Noel
Doucet, Jean-Louis
Erwin, Terry L.
Espejo, Javier Silva
Ewango, Corneille E.N.
Fauset, Sophie
Feldpausch, Ted R.
Herrera, Rafael
Gilpin, Martin
Gloor, Emanuel
Hall, Jefferson S.
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
Lovett, Jon C.
Lukasu, Faustin Mpanya
Makana, Jean-Remy
Malhi, Yadvinder
Maracahipes, Leandro
Marimon, Beatriz S.
Junior, Ben Hur Marimon
Marshall, Andrew R.
Morandi, Paulo S.
Mukendi, John Tshibamba
Mukinzi, Jaques
Nilus, Reuben
Vargas, Percy Núñez
Camacho, Nadir C. Pallqui
Pardo, Guido
Peña-Claros, Marielos
Pétronelli, Pascal
Pickavance, Georgia C.
Poulsen, Axel Dalberg
Poulsen, John R.
Primack, Richard B.
Priyadi, Hari
Quesada, Carlos A.
Reitsma, Jan
Réjou-Méchain, Maxime
Restrepo, Zorayda
Rutishauser, Ervan
Salim, Kamariah Abu
Salomão, Rafael P.
Samsoedin, Ismayadi
Sheil, Douglas
Sierra, Rodrigo
Silveira, Marcos
Slik, J.W. Ferry
Steel, Lisa
Taedoumg, Hermann
Tan, Sylvester
Terborgh, John W.
Thomas, Sean C.
Toledo, Marisol
Umunay, Peter M.
Gamarra, Luis Valenzuela
Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães
Vos, Vincent A.
Wang, Ophelia
Willcock, Simon
Zemagho, Lise
Publication Year :
2017

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.

Details

Database :
OAIster
Notes :
text, English
Publication Type :
Electronic Resource
Accession number :
edsoai.ocn990335290
Document Type :
Electronic Resource