When it comes to reforestation, planting a diversity of tree species could have a plethora of positive effects on forest health and resilience, climate mitigation and biodiversity. That’s based on research from the world’s largest tree-planting experiment, in China, and one of the world’s longest-running tropical forest planting experiments, in Panama.

Florian Schnabel, lecturer and chair of silviculture at Freiburg University in Germany, and his team recently published two papers illustrating how planting diverse forests can buffer them against climate extremes and enhance carbon storage.

“The results of our research in Panama and in China really call for preserving and also planting diverse forests as a strategy under climate change,” he says……..Read more

Diverse forests and forest rewilding offer resilience against climate change

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