Reforestation Is Most Beneficial Type of Plant-Based Climate-Mitigation Strategies for Wildlife Biodiversity (IMAGE)

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Reforestation Is Most Beneficial Type of Plant-Based Climate-Mitigation Strategies for Wildlife Biodiversity

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A new study by a New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) scientist and her colleagues in this week's Science finds that, of the three large-scale, plant-based climate mitigation strategies, reforestation stands out as most beneficial for biodiversity. In addition to reforestation (restoring forests in places where they have historically grown), the team of scientists modeled the impacts of afforestation (adding forests in places like grasslands and savannahs) and bioenergy cropping (farming plants such as switchgrass for renewable energy) on more than 14,000 animal species.

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