Communications Earth & Environment (Dec 2021)

Strategic Forest Reserves can protect biodiversity in the western United States and mitigate climate change

  • Beverly E. Law,
  • Logan T. Berner,
  • Polly C. Buotte,
  • David J. Mildrexler,
  • William J. Ripple

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00326-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Strategic forest reserves based on biodiversity and carbon storage can help to protect animal and tree species habitat, surface drinking water and carbon stocks and accumulation in the western US, suggests an assessment of current forest preservation.