Silvopastoral systems and remnant forests enhance carbon storage in livestock-dominated landscapes in Mexico.

ABSTRACT: A large area of the terrestrial land surface is used for livestock grazing. Trees on grazing lands provide and can enhance multiple ecosystem services such as provisioning, cultural and regulating, that include carbon sequestration. In this study, we assessed the above- and belowground carbon stocks across six different land-uses in livestock-dominated landscapes of Mexico. We measured tree biomass and soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks in fodder banks, live fences, pasturelands with dispersed trees, secondary forests, and primary forests from three different geographical regions and compared them with conventional open pasturelands respectively. We also calculated tree diversity indices for each land-use and their similarity with native primary forests. The aboveground woody biomass stocks

SUBMITTER: Aryal DR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9537417 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature