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Biodiversity in forest carbon sequestration initiatives: not just a side benefit [1]

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One way of mitigating global climate change is protecting and enhancing biosphere carbon stocks. The success of mitigation initiatives depends on the long-term net balance between carbon gains and losses. The biodiversity of ecological communities, including composition and variability of traits of plants and soil organisms, can alter this balance in several ways.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2009
Andy Hector [2], Sandra Daz [3], David A Wardle [4]
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability [5]
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Forests [6], Forest Conservation [7], Climate Change [8], Climate Mitigation [9], Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) [10], Carbon Sinks [11], Carbon Sequestration [12], Biodiversity [13], Biodiversity Conservation [14], Andy Hector [2], REDD [15], Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability [5], Sandra Daz [3], David A Wardle [4]
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[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/sandra-daz
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[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/current-opinion-environmental-sustainability
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[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-mitigation
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/clean-development-mechanism-cdm
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/carbon-sinks
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/carbon-sequestration
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/biodiversity
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/biodiversity-conservation
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/redd