A new study has revealed a natural solution to mitigate the effects of climate change, such as extreme weather events. Researchers from Leipzig University, the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig (iDiv) and other research institutions have discovered that high plant diversity acts as a buffer against fluctuations in soil temperature. This buffer can then be of vital importance to ecosystem processes.

A new study has revealed a natural solution to mitigate the effects of climate change, such as extreme weather events. Researchers from Leipzig University, the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig (iDiv) and other research institutions have discovered that high plant diversity acts as a buffer against fluctuations in soil temperature. This buffer can then be of vital importance to ecosystem processes.

The new findings are published in the journal Nature Geoscience.

  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I wonder what species they used for their monoculture and their diverse treatments (fucking pay walls). If it was all grassy spp of the same height this would be really cool.

    Not knowing what they used the findings aren’t that surprising given that if you h ave diversity, you are much more likely to to have structure (layers) in the vegetative community, and therefore greater canopy cover and overlap.

    In winter, this still applies somewhat in terms of sheltering and catching snow which is more insulating.