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🚨NEW STUDY🚨

“Keeping tree diversity intact in Canada's many forests over the long term can help increase carbon capture & mitigate climate change,” according to a new University of Alberta study.
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The study, published in @Nature, “is the first of its kind to show the sustained benefits of tree diversity on a large spatial scale, in terms of #storing #carbon and nitrogen in the soil. It reinforces the importance of biodiversity conservation in forests.”
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The researchers analyzed “Canada's National Forest Inventory database & used statistical modeling to provide new evidence of a link between greater tree diversity & higher soil C & N accumulation in natural forest ecosystems over decadal time scales.”
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The research showed that “over the long term, evening out the numbers of tree species in natural forests would boost carbon and nitrogen in the organic soil layer by 30 and 43 percent, respectively.”
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“Hand in hand with that, increasing the variety of functional traits such as leaf nitrogen content and adult height of different tree species within a community could enhance carbon and nitrogen #storage in the top mineral soil layer by 32 and 50 percent.”
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The findings can “help guide growing efforts to use forests for #CarbonSequestration by protecting and enhancing the tree species diversity, which will at the same time benefit the productivity of forests today and in future," research notes.
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Read more information on the paper entitled: “Tree diversity increases decadal forest soil carbon and nitrogen accrual” here ⬇️
nature.com/articles/s4158…

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