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  <dc:contributor>Guilherme G. Mazzochini</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Akira S. Mori</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Estelle Razanatsoa</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Sarah R. Weiskopf</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Adrian Heilemann</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Luiz A. Domeignoz-Horta</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2025</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Key messages: &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;• 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. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;• 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. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;• 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.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Future Earth, The Earth League, World Climate Research Programme</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Insight 4. Climate change and biodiversity loss amplify each other</dc:title>
  <dc:type>chapter</dc:type>
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