Mature Andean forests as globally important carbon sinks and future carbon refuges.


Journal

Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
09 04 2021
Historique:
received: 04 09 2020
accepted: 17 03 2021
entrez: 10 4 2021
pubmed: 11 4 2021
medline: 4 5 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

It is largely unknown how South America's Andean forests affect the global carbon cycle, and thus regulate climate change. Here, we measure aboveground carbon dynamics over the past two decades in 119 monitoring plots spanning a range of >3000 m elevation across the subtropical and tropical Andes. Our results show that Andean forests act as strong sinks for aboveground carbon (0.67 ± 0.08 Mg C ha

Identifiants

pubmed: 33837222
doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-22459-8
pii: 10.1038/s41467-021-22459-8
pmc: PMC8035207
doi:

Substances chimiques

Carbon 7440-44-0

Banques de données

Dryad
['10.5061/dryad.59zw3r26f']

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

2138

Commentaires et corrections

Type : ErratumIn

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Auteurs

Alvaro Duque (A)

Departamento de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medellín, Medellín, Colombia. ajduque@unal.edu.co.

Miguel A Peña (MA)

Departamento de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medellín, Medellín, Colombia.

Francisco Cuesta (F)

Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad, Medio Ambiente y Salud -BIOMAS - Universidad de Las Américas (UDLA), Quito, Ecuador.

Sebastián González-Caro (S)

Departamento de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medellín, Medellín, Colombia.

Peter Kennedy (P)

Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA.

Oliver L Phillips (OL)

School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

Marco Calderón-Loor (M)

Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad, Medio Ambiente y Salud -BIOMAS - Universidad de Las Américas (UDLA), Quito, Ecuador.
Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Cecilia Blundo (C)

Instituto de Ecología Regional (IER), Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Tucumán, Argentina.

Julieta Carilla (J)

Instituto de Ecología Regional (IER), Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Tucumán, Argentina.

Leslie Cayola (L)

Herbario Nacional de Bolivia (LPB), La Paz, Bolivia.
Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO, USA.

William Farfán-Ríos (W)

Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Living Earth Collaborative, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.

Alfredo Fuentes (A)

Herbario Nacional de Bolivia (LPB), La Paz, Bolivia.
Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO, USA.

Ricardo Grau (R)

Instituto de Ecología Regional (IER), Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Tucumán, Argentina.

Jürgen Homeier (J)

Plant Ecology and Ecosystems Research, University of Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany.
Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use (CBL), University of Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany.

María I Loza-Rivera (MI)

Herbario Nacional de Bolivia (LPB), La Paz, Bolivia.
Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO, USA.

Yadvinder Malhi (Y)

Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Agustina Malizia (A)

Instituto de Ecología Regional (IER), Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Tucumán, Argentina.

Lucio Malizia (L)

Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Jujuy, Argentina.

Johanna A Martínez-Villa (JA)

Université du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Jonathan A Myers (JA)

Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.

Oriana Osinaga-Acosta (O)

Instituto de Ecología Regional (IER), Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Tucumán, Argentina.

Manuel Peralvo (M)

Consorcio para el Desarrollo Sostenible de la Ecorregión Andina (CONDESAN), Quito, Ecuador.

Esteban Pinto (E)

Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad, Medio Ambiente y Salud -BIOMAS - Universidad de Las Américas (UDLA), Quito, Ecuador.
Columbus State University, University System of Georgia, Columbus, GA, USA.

Sassan Saatchi (S)

Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Miles Silman (M)

Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.

J Sebastián Tello (JS)

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

Andrea Terán-Valdez (A)

Centro Jambatú de Investigación y Conservación de Anfibios, Quito, Ecuador.

Kenneth J Feeley (KJ)

Biology Department, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA.

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