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DOI	10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.041
	The role of largewild animals in climate change mitigation and adaptation
	Malhi, Yadvinder; Lander, Tonya; le Roux, Elizabeth; Stevens, Nicola; Macias-Fauria, Marc; Wedding, Lisa; Girardin, Cecile; Kristensen, Jeppe Agard; Sandom, Christopher J.; Evans, Tom D.; Svenning, Jens-Christian; Canney, Susan
发表日期	2022
ISSN	0960-9822
EISSN	1879-0445
起始页码	R181
结束页码	R196
卷号	32 期号:4
英文摘要	Two major environmental challenges of our time are responding to climate change and reversing biodiversity decline. Interventions that simultaneously tackle both challenges are highly desirable. To date, most studies aiming to find synergistic interventions for these two challenges have focused on protecting or restoring vegetation and soils but overlooked how conservation or restoration of large wild animals might influence the climate mitigation and adaptation potential of ecosystems. However, interactions between large animal conservation and climate change goals may not always be positive. Here, we review wildlife conservation and climate change mitigation in terrestrial and marine ecosystems. We elucidate general principles about the biome types where, and mechanisms by which, positive synergies and negative trade-offs between wildlife conservation and climate change mitigation are likely. We find that large animals have the greatest potential to facilitate climate change mitigation at a global scale via three mechanisms: changes in fire regime, especially in previously low-flammability biomes with a new or intensifying fire regime, such as mesic grasslands or warm temperate woodlands; changes in terrestrial albedo, particularly where there is potential to shift from closed canopy to open canopy systems at higher latitudes; and increases in vegetation and soil carbon stocks, especially through a shift towards below-ground carbon pools in temperate, tropical and sub-tropical grassland ecosystems. Large animals also contribute to ecosystem adaptation to climate change by promoting complexity of trophic webs, increasing habitat heterogeneity, enhancing plant dispersal, increasing resistance to abrupt ecosystem change and through microclimate modification.
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology ; Biology ; Cell Biology
WOS类目	Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
WOS记录号	WOS:000771022000017
来源期刊	CURRENT BIOLOGY
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/280330
作者单位	University of Oxford; University of Oxford; Aarhus University; Aarhus University; University of Oxford; University of Sussex; University of Sussex; Wildlife Conservation Society; University of Oxford
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Malhi, Yadvinder,Lander, Tonya,le Roux, Elizabeth,et al. The role of largewild animals in climate change mitigation and adaptation[J],2022,32(4).
APA	Malhi, Yadvinder.,Lander, Tonya.,le Roux, Elizabeth.,Stevens, Nicola.,Macias-Fauria, Marc.,...&Canney, Susan.(2022).The role of largewild animals in climate change mitigation and adaptation.CURRENT BIOLOGY,32(4).
MLA	Malhi, Yadvinder,et al."The role of largewild animals in climate change mitigation and adaptation".CURRENT BIOLOGY 32.4(2022).