Species loss and aboveground carbon storage in a tropical forest

被引：294

作者：

Bunker, DE ^{[1
]}

DeClerck, F

Bradford, JC

Colwell, RK

Perfecto, I

Phillips, OL

Sankaran, M

Naeem, S

机构：

[1] Columbia Univ, Dept Ecol Evolut & Environm Biol, New York, NY 10027 USA

[2] Columbia Univ, Earth Inst, New York, NY 10027 USA

[3] Missouri Bot Garden, Ctr Conservat & Sustainable Dev, St Louis, MO 63166 USA

[4] Univ Connecticut, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Storrs, CT 06269 USA

[5] Univ Michigan, Sch Nat Resources & Environm, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA

[6] Univ Leeds, Sch Geog, Earth & Biosphere Inst, Leeds LS 9JT, W Yorkshire, England

[7] Colorado State Univ, Nat Resource Ecol Lab, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA

来源：

SCIENCE | 2005年 / 310卷 / 5750期

基金：

英国自然环境研究理事会;

关键词：

D O I：

10.1126/science.1117682

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Tropical forest biodiversity is declining, but the resulting effects on key ecosystem services, such as carbon storage and sequestration, remain unknown. We assessed the influence of the loss of tropical tree species on carbon storage by simulating 18 possible extinction scenarios within a well-studied 50-hectare tropical forest plot in Panama, which contains 227 tree species. Among extinction scenarios, aboveground carbon stocks varied by more than 600%, and biological insurance varied by more than 400%. These results indicate that future carbon storage in tropical forests will be influenced strongly by future species composition.

引用

页码：1029 / 1031

页数：3

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