ArticleScience advances2017
The biodiversity cost of carbon sequestration in tropical savanna.
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- A Pantropical Analysis of Fire Impacts and Post-Fire Species Recovery of Plant Life Forms.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Reptile responses to fire across the western Mediterranean Basin.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2025Article
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- Contributions of human cultures to biodiversity and ecosystem conservation.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Review
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- Scorched Earth.Nature plants · 2024Article
- Climate change decouples dominant tree species in African savannas.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
Tropical savannas have been increasingly viewed as an opportunity for carbon sequestration through fire suppression and afforestation, but insufficient attention has been given to the consequences for biodiversity. To evaluate the biodiversity costs of increasing carbon sequestration, we quantified changes in ecosystem carbon stocks and the associated changes in communities of plants and ants resulting from fire suppression in savannas of the Brazilian Cerrado, a global biodiversity hotspot. Fire suppression resulted in increased carbon stocks of 1.2 Mg ha
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