Temperature and Rainfall Patterns Constrain the Multidimensional Rewilding of Global Forests.

ABSTRACT: The long-term contribution of global forest restoration to support multiple dimensions of biodiversity and ecosystem function remains largely illusive across contrasting climates and forest types. This hampers the capacity to predict the future of forest rewilding under changing global climates. Here, 120 studies are synthesized across five continents, and it is found that forest restoration promotes multiple dimensions of biodiversity and ecosystem function such as soil fertility, plant biomass, microbial habitat, and carbon sequestration across contrasting climates and forest types. Based on global relationship between stand age and soil organic carbon stock, planting 350 million hectares of forest under the UN Bonn Challenge can sequester >30 Gt soil C in the surface 20 cm over the next

SUBMITTER: Zhou G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9218649 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature