Oswald schmitz, Researcher

Washington [US], March 28 : A new study led by Yale School of the Environment Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology Oswald Schmitz discovered that protecting wildlife around the world could significantly improve natural carbon capture and storage by supercharging ecosystem carbon sinks.The study, published in Nature Climate Change and co-authored by 15 scientists from eight countries, examined nine wildlife species marine fish, whales, sharks, grey wolves, wildebeest, sea otters, musk oxen, African forest elephants, and American bison. The data shows that protecting or restoring their populations could collectively facilitate the additional capture of 6.41 billion tons of carbon dioxide annually. This is 95% of the amount needed every year to meet the Paris Agreement target of removing enough carbon from the atmosphere to keep global warming below the 1.5-degree Celsius threshold."Wildlife species, throughout their interaction with the environment, are the missing link between biodiversity and climate," Schmitz said, adding, "This interaction means rewilding can be among the best nature-based climate solutions available to humankind."Wild mals play a critical role controlling the carbon cycle in terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems through a wide range of processes including foraging, nutrient deposition, disturbance, orgc carbon deposition, and seed dispersal, Schmitz's research has shown. The dynamics of carbon uptake and storage fundamentally changes with the presence or absence of mals.Endangering mal populations to the point where they become extinct could flip the ecosystems they inhabit from carbon sinks to carbon sources, according to the research.The world's wildlife populations have declined by almost 70% in the last 50 years. The study shows that solving the climate crisis and biodiversity crisis are not separate issues and the restoration of mal populations should be included in the scope of nature-based climate solutions, the authors say. Rewilding mal populations to enhance natural carbon capture and storage is known as mating the carbon cycle.Other high potential species across the world include the African buffalo, white rhino, puma, dingo, Old and New World primates, hornbills, fruit bats, harbor and gray seals, and loggerhead and green turtles, the authors note."Natural climate solutions are becoming fundamental to achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, while creating added opportunity to enhance biodiversity conservation," the study states, adding, "Expanding climate solutions to include mals can help shorten the time horizon over which 500GtCO2 is drawn out of the atmosphere, especially if current opportunities to protect and rapidly recover species populations and the functional intactness of landscapes and seascapes are seized on. To ignore mals leads to missed opportunities to enhance the scope, spatial extent, and range of ecosystems that can be enlisted to help hold climate warming to within 1.5 degrees Celsius."Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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Washington [US], March 28 : A new study led by Yale School of the Environment Oastler Professor of Population ... ...