Keping Ma

Aug 28, 2024 | nature.com | Yi Li |Andreas Schuldt |Nico Eisenhauer |Yuanyuan Huang |Georg Albert |Cynthia Albracht | +25 more

AbstractEcosystem functioning depends on biodiversity at multiple trophic levels, yet relationships between multitrophic diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality have been poorly explored, with studies often focusing on individual trophic levels and functions and on specific ecosystem types. Here, we show that plant diversity can affect ecosystem functioning both directly and by affecting other trophic levels.

May 14, 2024 | nature.com | Kai Cheng |Haitao Yang |Shengli Tao |Yanjun Su |Hongcan Guan |Yu Ren | +2 more

AbstractChina’s extensive planted forests play a crucial role in carbon storage, vital for climate change mitigation. However, the complex spatiotemporal dynamics of China’s planted forest area and its carbon storage remain uncaptured. Here we reveal such changes in China’s planted forests from 1990 to 2020 using satellite and field data. Results show a doubling of planted forest area, a trend that intensified post-2000.

Jan 9, 2024 | nature.com | Yi Li |Bernhard Schmid |Andreas Schuldt |Shan Li |Ming-Qiang Wang |Felix Fornoff | +6 more

Correction to: Nature Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02049-1, published online 27 April 2023. In the version of the article initially published, the number of a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China was listed in the Acknowledgements as 32161123003 instead of 32222055. The error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article. About this articleLi, Y., Schmid, B., Schuldt, A. et al.

Oct 2, 2023 | nature.com | Musonda Mumba |Shalini Dhyani |Xiaoli Shen |Keping Ma |Rachel Wynberg |Sarah Laird | +1 more

This year marks the mid-point for the implementation of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals, including Sustainable Development Goal 5 ‘Life on land’. We asked a range of researchers, working across biodiversity science, conservation, policy and implementation, to reflect on priorities for action on conserving terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems over the next seven years.

Aug 24, 2023 | nature.com | Andrew Gonzalez |Patricia Balvanera |Peter J. Bellingham |Andreas Bruder |Jeannine Cavender-Bares |Jonathan Chase | +45 more

The rate and extent of global biodiversity change is surpassing our ability to measure, monitor and forecast trends. We propose an interconnected worldwide system of observation networks — a global biodiversity observing system (GBiOS) — to coordinate monitoring worldwide and inform action to reach international biodiversity targets. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF) provides a vision for living in harmony with nature that will have lasting benefits for humanity1.