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Cause for hope: Secondary tropical forests put on weight fast
2016-02-05 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: How fast tropical forests recover after deforestation has major consequences for climate change mitigation. A team including Smithsonian scientists discovered that some secondary tropical forests recover biomass quickly: half of the forests in the study attained 90 percent of old-growth forest levels in 66 years or less. Conservation planners can use their resulting biomass-recovery map for Latin America to prioritize conservation efforts. "Regenerating secondary forests could play a critical...
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