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Biodiversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality in global drylands

A global empirical study that suggests that preservation of plant biodiversity is crucial to buffer negative effects of climate change and desertification in drylands.


An international team of researchers led byFernando T. Maestre (professor at Rey Juan Carlos University), in which has participated as co-author Miguel García Gómez (Associate Professor at Department of Engineering and Land Morphology of the ETS. Civil Engineering, of the Technical University of Madrid) has finished a global empirical study that suggests that preservation of plant biodiversity is crucial to buffer negative effects of climate change and desertification in drylands.

This study, entitled “Plant species richness and ecosystem multifunctionality in global drylands,” was recently published in the journal Science (Science 13 January 2012: Vol. 335 no. 6065 pp. 214-218 DOI: 10.1126/science.1215442).

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