Forest resilience, biodiversity, and climate change

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Forest resilience, biodiversity, and climate change [1]

This paper reviews the concepts of ecosystem resilience, resistance, and stability in forests and their relationship to biodiversity, with particular reference to climate change. The report is a direct response to a request by the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the CBD, in decision IX/5, to explore the links between biodiversity, forest ecosystem resilience, and climate change. Forests are emphasized because they are major reservoirs of terrestrial biodiversity and contain
about 50% of the global terrestrial biomass carbon stocks. Emissions from deforestation and degradation remain a significant
(ca. 18-20%) source of annual greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere, and therefore the conservation, appropriate management and restoration of forests will make a significant contribution to climate change mitigation. Further, forests
have a certain natural capacity to adapt to climate change because of their biodiversity.

Publication Date:

01/10/2009

Author(s): & et al [2], Ian Thompson [3], Brendan Mackey [4], Steven McNulty [5]

Source: Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity [6]

Tags:

Ecosystems [7], Forests [8], Tropical Forests [9], Deforestation [10], Climate Change [11], Carbon Sequestration [12], Biodiversity [13], Global [14]

Source URL: http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/forest-resilience-biodiversity-and-climate-change

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