Insight 4. Climate change and biodiversity loss amplify each other
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Abstract
Key messages:
• Climate change is impacting biodiversity from local to global scales, and growing evidence suggests that further loss of biodiversity can contribute to climate change, creating a destabilizing feedback. • Loss of plant diversity due to climate and land-use change can weaken ecosystem functioning, leading to a decrease in biomass accumulation and reduced carbon storage.
• Animal biodiversity, both terrestrial and marine, plays a key role in regulating carbon storage through trophic chains and other plant-animal interactions that can alter vegetation structure and composition, affecting biomass accumulation and carbon sequestration.
• Natural climate solution initiatives that integrate aspects of ecosystem integrity and species composition, rather than focusing solely on land cover area, can more effectively safeguard the carbon sink function.
Suggested Citation
Domeignoz-Horta, L., Mazzochini, G., Mori, A.S., Razanatsoa, E., Weiskopf, S.R., Heilemann, A., 2025, Insight 4. Climate change and biodiversity loss amplify each other, chap. of 10 New insights in climate science 2025/2026, p. 22-24.
| Publication type | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Book Chapter |
| Title | Insight 4. Climate change and biodiversity loss amplify each other |
| Year Published | 2025 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Future Earth, The Earth League, World Climate Research Programme |
| Contributing office(s) | National Climate Adaptation Science Center |
| Description | 3 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Monograph |
| Larger Work Title | 10 New insights in climate science 2025/2026 |
| First page | 22 |
| Last page | 24 |