Linking vegetation change, carbon sequestration and biodiversity: insights from island ecosystems in a long‐term natural experiment
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Summary
This work synthesizes multiple lines of evidence from a long‐term ‘natural experiment’ to illustrate how ecosystem retrogression drives vegetation change, and thus above‐ground and below‐ground carbon sequestration, and communities of consumer biota.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2012-01-01
- Cited by
- 254
- References
- 88
- Access
- Open access
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- https://openalex.org/W1815486494
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Keywords
Decomposer, Ecosystem, Chronosequence, Ecology, Environmental science
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