We don't pay enough attention to small woods.
However, they are refuges of biodiversity, the richness of which is proportionally greater than that of the great forests, suggests a study which caused a stir among ecologists when it was published in early December in the journal
Ecology Letters
.
Large forests monopolize the efforts of conservation experts, regret the two authors, researchers at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and that of Carleton (Canada).
And, as the COP15 on biodiversity draws to a close in Montreal, the objective of which is to define a global strategy to halt the decline of living organisms, in particular by protecting 30% of the surface of the planet, the international team calls for the recognition
"as a matter of urgency"
of the value of small
(“and even very small”)
forest plots to solve the environmental crisis.
To reach this conclusion, the scientists explain that they have widened the scope of their study, and compared the contribution…
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