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.
| 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 |