Restoring deforested drylands for a wetter future – harnessing trees for credits, climate and water
Drylands covered two-fifths of the Earth's land surface in 2015 (Bastin et al., 2017), with trees growing in one-third of these areas (FAO, 2019). This area of drylands has expanded by almost 1% per year since 2015 because of large-scale drying and land degradation at low and middle latitudes (Prăvălie et al., 2019). Thus, conservation and restoration of drylands are needed. Restoration is often performed with a focus on the carbon sequestration potential that can be funded by carbon markets (Bajaj, 2022). In contrast, the role of trees and forests in water cycling has been relatively neglected (Ellison et al., 2012, 2017; Sheil, 2014).
Title of publication: Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Volumen: 7
Intervalo de páginas: 137111
Autor: Kramer Koen
Otros autores: Douglas Sheil
Organización: CIFOR-ICRAF
Otras organizaciones: Wageningen University, Netherlands
Año: 2024
Tipo: Artículo de revista especializada
Texto completo disponible en: https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2024.1371117
Idioma utilizado para los contenidos: English