{"id":2756,"date":"2023-05-04T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=2756"},"modified":"2023-05-04T10:00:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T08:00:42","slug":"new-study-finds-tree-diversity-increases-carbon-storage-and-soil-fertility-in-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/05\/04\/new-study-finds-tree-diversity-increases-carbon-storage-and-soil-fertility-in-forests\/","title":{"rendered":"A new study finds that tree diversity increases carbon storage and soil fertility in forests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping tree diversity intact in many Canadian forests over the long term can help increase carbon sequestration and mitigate climate change, according to a new University of Alberta study.\u00a0<span>A study published in\u00a0<\/span><i><span>Nature<\/span><\/i><span>\u00a0is the first of its kind to show the sustained benefits of tree diversity at a large spatial scale for soil carbon and nitrogen storage. It reinforces the importance of protecting biodiversity in forests, says Xinli Chen, lead author of the paper and a postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Sciences.\u00a0<\/span><span>&quot;Preserving tree diversity is a valuable tool <\/span><span>in mitigating climate change, especially in increasing soil carbon storage,&quot; he says.\u00a0<\/span><span>Although it has already been established that increased carbon and nitrogen storage in soil can help mitigate the effects of climate change <\/span><span>and maintain soil fertility<\/span><span>, stocks of both elements have been substantially depleted globally due to factors such as forest fires<\/span><span>, deforestation and land-use change, he noted<\/span><span>. Maintaining and promoting tree diversity in forests can help increase soil carbon and nitrogen levels.\u00a0<\/span><span>The researchers analyzed the Canadian <\/span><span>National Forest Inventory database and used statistical modeling to provide new evidence for a link between greater tree diversity and higher soil carbon and nitrogen accumulation in natural forest ecosystems at decadal timescales, meaning timescales of more than 10 years or longer.\u00a0<\/span><span>The work, carried out in collaboration with scientists from Canada, Japan and the United States, confirms the collective findings of previous experiments. Specifically, the research showed that over the long term, equalizing the number of tree species in natural forests would increase carbon and nitrogen in the organic soil layer by 30 and 43 percent, respectively. <em>(<\/em><\/span><em>Bev Betkowski, University of Alberta, PhysOrg)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maintaining intact tree diversity in many Canadian forests over the long term could help increase carbon sequestration and mitigate climate change, according to a new University of Alberta study. The study, published in Nature, is the first of its kind to show the lasting benefits of tree diversity at a large spatial scale in terms of carbon and nitrogen storage in soils. It reinforces the importance of protecting biodiversity in forests, [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena","category-znizovanie_co2_cdr_ccs_ccu_dac"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}