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Species Loss and Aboveground Carbon Storage in a Tropical Forest

Published:2005-11-11 Issue:5750 Volume:310 Page:1029-1031
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
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Author:

Bunker Daniel E.¹²³⁴⁵,DeClerck Fabrice¹²³⁴⁵,Bradford Jason C.¹²³⁴⁵,Colwell Robert K.¹²³⁴⁵,Perfecto Ivette¹²³⁴⁵,Phillips Oliver L.¹²³⁴⁵,Sankaran Mahesh¹²³⁴⁵,Naeem Shahid¹²³⁴⁵

Affiliation:

1. Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.

2. Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.

3. Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO 63166, USA.

4. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.

5. School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

Abstract

Tropical forest biodiversity is declining, but the resulting effects on key ecosystem services, such as carbon storage and sequestration, remain unknown. We assessed the influence of the loss of tropical tree species on carbon storage by simulating 18 possible extinction scenarios within a well-studied 50-hectare tropical forest plot in Panama, which contains 227 tree species. Among extinction scenarios, aboveground carbon stocks varied by more than 600%, and biological insurance varied by more than 400%. These results indicate that future carbon storage in tropical forests will be influenced strongly by future species composition.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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