Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

Biodiversity can benefit from climate stabilization despite adverse side effects of land-based mitigation

  • Haruka Ohashi,
  • Tomoko Hasegawa,
  • Akiko Hirata,
  • Shinichiro Fujimori,
  • Kiyoshi Takahashi,
  • Ikutaro Tsuyama,
  • Katsuhiro Nakao,
  • Yuji Kominami,
  • Nobuyuki Tanaka,
  • Yasuaki Hijioka,
  • Tetsuya Matsui

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13241-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Greenhouse gas mitigation can involve land-use changes that alter the habitat available for wildlife. Here, Ohashi et al. perform an integrated assessment showing that climate mitigation can be beneficial for global biodiversity but may entail local biodiversity losses where land-based mitigation is implemented.