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

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 ...

In its second year, over 11,500 participants pledged to convert 36 million sq. ft. of turf to sustainable alternatives for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

“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 ...