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Climate change mitigation efforts, particularly those involving increased bioenergy use, can lead to significant forest biodiversity loss. However, biodiversity-conscious forest management strategies can reduce this impact by 10% with minimal economic consequences.

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  • Conservation Biology
  • Environmental Economics

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  • Forest management decisions often overlook biodiversity impacts.
  • Integrating ecological models with economic models is crucial for comprehensive analysis.

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  • To incorporate biodiversity impacts into forest management decision-making.
  • To analyze the trade-offs between climate change mitigation and forest biodiversity conservation.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the species-area relationship model within the GLOBIOM-Forest partial equilibrium model.
  • Tested three forest management intensities (low, medium, high) and two climate change scenarios (RCP1.9 and RCP7.0).
  • Implemented a regional species loss constraint to limit biodiversity decline.

Main Results:

  • The higher mitigation scenario (RCP1.9) showed greater biodiversity loss than the reference scenario (RCP7.0), indicating a trade-off.
  • Biodiversity-conscious forest management can alleviate this trade-off.
  • Specific strategies include shifting bioenergy production, increasing unmanaged forests, reducing management intensity, and reallocating biomass.

Conclusions:

  • Global biodiversity loss can be reduced by 10% through targeted management, with minor economic effects.
  • Global aggregated reductions do not guarantee ecoregion-specific improvements.
  • Connecting ecological and economic models aids in identifying trade-offs and improving decision-making for biodiversity conservation.