Growing coffee in agroforestry systems in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) supports 19 times higher biodiversity and stores twice as much carbon compared with monoculture systems, while ...

An analysis of thousands of forest plots reveals an underappreciated link between animal biodiversity and carbon storage ...

“Although there is more biodiversity in clonal-based rubber agroforestry systems compared to monoculture systems, it is still very far from that of natural forests,” says Eric Penot from the ...

Because of this poor performance in monoculture (not insurance effects), the biodiversity productivity relationship was strongest during the driest years. If biodiversity ameliorates hot/dry ...

Global natural capital consulting firm Trucost has released the results of a study comparing the environmental value of monoculture and agroforestry for producing palm oil and soybeans. Based on pilot ...

Diversity and productivity go branch-in-branch Canadian dryland forest productivity boosted by functional diversity in hard times Date: April 26, 2024 Source: Kyoto University Summary: Researchers ...

Looking beyond a traditional monoculture approach to forestry, the paper— published in the Quarterly Journal of Forestry —shows that greater species diversity in productive forests can address ...

Growing up on a farm in a remote part of Cameroon, I learned at my mother’s side about the conditions needed for plants and ...

New research from Smithsonian’s Bird Friendly Coffee program highlights a type of biodiversity that often gets overlooked: soil bacteria and fungal communities.