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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
卷 7, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/srep39102
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资金
- European Research Council (ERC)
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- European Union's Seventh Framework Programme [283080, 282664]
- Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Urgency Grants
- NERC Consortium Grant 'AMAZONICA' [NE/F005806/1]
- NERC Consortium Grant 'TROBIT' [NE/D005590/1]
- NERC Consortium Grant 'BIO-RED' [NE/N012542/1]
- NERC New Investigators Grant
- Royal Society
- Centre for International Forestry (CIFOR)
- Gabon's National Parks Agency (ANPN)
- NERC PhD Studentship
- UNEP-WCMC
- NERC research fellowship [NE/I021160/1]
- Royal Society University Research Fellowship
- ERC Advanced Grant (T-FORCES)
- Phillip Leverhulme Prize
- Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
- NERC studentship
- RGS-IBG Henrietta Hutton Grant
- National Council for Science and Technology Development of Brazil (CNPq) [PELD/403725/2012-7, CNPq/PPBio/457602/2012-0]
- National Council for Science and Technology Development of Brazil (CNPq) Productivity Grant
- Leverhulme Trust under the Valuing the Arc project
- Missouri Botanical Garden
- Smithsonian Institution
- NERC [NE/N011570/1, NE/K01644X/1, NE/I02982X/1, NE/D01025X/1, NE/J023418/1, NE/F005776/1, NE/N012542/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/K01644X/1, NE/I02982X/1, NE/J023418/1, NE/F005776/1, NE/N012542/1, NE/B503384/1, NE/D01025X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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.
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