Since tropical forests are Earth’s largest land-based carbon sink, such challenges make it harder to fight climate change. But the influence of biodiversity on forests’ ability to absorb carbon has not been fully quantified.
To do that, the researchers looked at data on where seed-dispersing animals live, how many seeds each animal disperses, and how they affect germination. Then they incorporated data revealing the impact of human activity such as hunting and forest degradation. They found, for…
