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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 1ha scale across the tropics are absent, and within continents are either weak (Asia) or absent
(Amazonia, Africa). A weak positive relationship is detectable within 1ha 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.
| Divisions: | College of Science > School of Life Sciences |
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| ID Code: | 35387 |
| Deposited On: | 15 Mar 2019 14:34 |
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