Savannas are vital but overlooked carbon sinks
Science
.
2022 Jan 28;375(6579):392.
doi: 10.1126/science.abn4482.
Epub 2022 Jan 27.
Authors
Andy Dobson
1
,
Grant Hopcraft
2
,
Simon Mduma
3
,
Joseph O Ogutu
4
,
John Fryxell
5
,
T Michael Anderson
6
,
Sally Archibald
7
,
Caroline Lehmann
8
9
,
Joyce Poole
10
,
Tim Caro
11
,
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder
12
,
Robert D Holt
13
,
Joel Berger
14
,
Daniel I Rubenstein
1
,
Paula Kahumbu
15
,
Emmanuel N Chidumayo
16
,
E J Milner-Gulland
17
,
Dolph Schluter
18
,
Sarah Otto
18
,
Andrew Balmford
19
,
David Wilcove
1
,
Stuart Pimm
20
,
Joseph W Veldman
21
,
Han Olff
22
,
Reed Noss
23
,
Ricardo Holdo
24
,
Colin Beale
25
,
Gareth Hempson
7
,
Yustina Kiwango
26
,
David Lindenmayer
27
,
William Bond
28
,
Mark Ritchie
29
,
Anthony R E Sinclair
18
Affiliations
1
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
2
Glasgow University, Glasgow, UK.
3
Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute, Arusha, Tanzania.
4
University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany.
5
University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada.
6
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA.
7
University of the Witwatersrand, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, 2000, South Africa.
8
Tropical Diversity, Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh EH35LR, UK.
9
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH93FF, UK.
10
ElephantVoices, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA.
11
University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TH, UK.
12
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
13
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
14
Colorado State University, and Wildlife Conservation Society, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA.
15
Wildlife Direct, Karen 00502, Nairobi, Kenya.
16
Zambian National University, Lusaka, Zambia.
17
Department of Zoology, Oxford University, Oxford OX1 3SZ, UK.
18
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.
19
Cambridge University, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK.
20
Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
21
Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
22
University of Groningen, 9712 CP Groningen, Netherlands.
23
Florida Institute for Conservation Science, Oviedo, FL 32766, USA.
24
University of Athens, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
25
University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK.
26
Tanzania National Parks, Arusha, Tanzania.
27
Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.
28
University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, 7700, South Africa.
29
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA.
PMID:
35084954
DOI:
10.1126/science.abn4482
No abstract available
Publication types
Letter