{"id":4092,"date":"2022-12-01T15:19:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T15:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/?p=4092"},"modified":"2022-12-01T15:22:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T15:22:39","slug":"new-publication-from-mahecha-et-al-in-nature-biodiversity-loss-and-climate-extremes-study-the-feedbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/2022\/12\/01\/new-publication-from-mahecha-et-al-in-nature-biodiversity-loss-and-climate-extremes-study-the-feedbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication from Mahecha et al. in Nature: Biodiversity loss and climate extremes \u2014 study the feedbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"justify\">As humans warm the planet, biodiversity is plummeting. These two \nglobal crises are connected in multiple ways. But the details of the \nintricate feedback loops between biodiversity decline and climate change\n are astonishingly under-studied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify\">It is well known that climate \nextremes such as droughts and heatwaves can have devastating impacts on \necosystems and, in turn, that degraded ecosystems have a reduced \ncapacity to protect humanity against the social and physical impacts of \nsuch events. Yet only a few such relationships have been probed in \ndetail. Even less well known is whether biodiversity-depleted ecosystems\n will also have a negative effect on climate, provoking or exacerbating \nweather extremes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify\">For us, a group of researchers living and  working mainly in Central Europe, the wake-up call was the sequence of  heatwaves of 2018, 2019 and 2022. It felt unreal to watch a floodplain  forest suffer drought stress in Leipzig, Germany. Across Germany, more  than 380,000 hectares of trees have now been damaged (see <a href=\"http:\/\/go.nature.com\/3etrrnp\">go.nature.com\/3etrrnp<\/a>; in German), and the forestry sector is struggling with how to plan restoration activities over the coming decades<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-04152-y#ref-CR1\">1<\/a><\/sup>.  What could have protected these ecosystems against such extremes? And  how will the resultant damage further impact our climate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More details please read in: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-04152-y\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-04152-y<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.nature.com\/lw767\/magazine-assets\/d41586-022-04152-y\/d41586-022-04152-y_23754854.jpg\" alt=\"This pair of aerial photos shows (L) dead spruce trees in Germany in 2020, and (R) logs of dead trees at the same site in 2021.\" width=\"580\" height=\"400\"\/><figcaption>    Dead trees near Iserlohn, Germany, in April 2020 (left) and after felling in June 2021 (right).Credit: Ina Fassbender\/AFP via Getty   <br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4>Reference<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Mahecha, M., Bastos, A., Bohn, F., Eisenhauer, N., Feilhauer, H.,   Hartmann, H., Hickler, T., Kalesse-Los, H., Migliavacca, M., Otto, F.,   Peng, J., Quaas, J., Tegen, I., Weigelt, A., Wendisch, M. and Wirth, C.,   Biodiversity loss and climate extremes \u2014 study the feedbacks. <em>Nature<\/em> <strong>612<\/strong>, 30-32 (2022).  <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/d41586-022-04152-y\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/d41586-022-04152-y<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As humans warm the planet, biodiversity is plummeting. These two global crises are connected in multiple ways. But the details of the intricate feedback loops between biodiversity decline and climate&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4095,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092\/revisions\/4095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}