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Home$– Forest & woodland

Seed dispersal disruption limits tropical forest regrowthJuly 2025

by ACC Admin | Jul 24, 2025 | 2025, Peer Reviewed Scientific Paper, Resources, Technical / Scientific

Many trees depend on animals for seed dispersal, and human activities that disrupt seed dispersal by animals may impact forest regeneration and carbon storage. Yet whether expected negative impacts are observable across regrowing forests remains untested. We modeled...

Drivers and impacts of global seed dispersal declineMay 2025

by ACC Admin | May 19, 2025 | 2025, Peer Reviewed Scientific Paper, Resources, Technical / Scientific

Evan C. Fricke Carolina Bello Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer Daisy. H Dent Kenneth. J. Freeley Mauro Galetti Juan P. Gonzalez-Vero Ruben Heleno J. Leighton Reid Abstract Most plant species rely on animals for the dispersal of their seeds, and seed dispersal is the most...

The combined impact of fisheries and climate change on future carbon sequestration by oceanic macrofaunaMay 2025

by ACC Admin | May 7, 2025 | 2025, Peer Reviewed Scientific Paper, Resources, Technical / Scientific

Although the role of marine macrofauna in the ocean carbon cycle is increasingly understood, the cumulative impacts of fisheries and climate change on this pathway remain overlooked. Here, using a marine ecosystem model, we estimate that each degree of warming reduces...

Global Tiger Density Linked With Forest Carbon Stock, Top-Down and Bottom-UpMay 2025

by ACC Admin | May 7, 2025 | 2025, Peer Reviewed Scientific Paper, Resources, Technical / Scientific

Nathan James Roberts Abishek Harihar Xuhui Zhou Wen She Guangshun Jiang Tiger (Panthera tigris) survival, as apex predators in forest ecosystems, largely depends on abundant prey in healthy, intact forests. Because large herbivore prey are drivers of plant biomass, we...

Wolf introduction to Scotland could support substantional native woodland expansion and associated carbon sequestrationMay 2025

by ACC Admin | May 1, 2025 | 2025, Peer Reviewed Scientific Paper, Resources, Technical / Scientific

D. V. Spracklen P. J. Chapman T. Fletcher J.V. Lane E.B. Nilsen M. Perks L. Schofield C.E Scott   Large carnivores play an important role in regulating ecosystems (Estes et al., 2011; Ripple et al., 2014). They alter the abundance and behaviour of their prey...
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