Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • Matters Arising
  • Published:

Reply to: The risks of overstating the climate benefits of ecosystem restoration

The Original Article was published on 07 September 2022

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Buy this article

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

References

  1. Doelman, J. C. & Stehfest, E. The risks of overstating the climate benefits of ecosystem restoration. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04881-0 (2022).

  2. Strassburg, B. B. N. et al. Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration. Nature 586, 724–729 (2020).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. ESA CCI. Land Cover CCI Climate Research Data Package https://www.esa-landcovercci.org/?q=node/158 (2017).

  4. Zomer, R. J. et al. Global tree cover and biomass carbon on agricultural land: the contribution of agroforestry to global and national carbon budgets. Sci. Rep. 6, 29987 (2016).

    Article  ADS  CAS  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  5. Meijaard, E. et al. Oil Palm and Biodiversity: A Situation Analysis by the IUCN Oil Palm Task Force (IUCN, 2018).

  6. Xiong, J. et al. NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Global Food Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD) @ 30-m Africa: Cropland Extent Product (GFSAD30AFCE) (NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC, 2017).

  7. Xiong, J. et al. Nominal 30-m cropland extent map of continental Africa by integrating pixel-based and object-based algorithms using Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 data on Google Earth Engine. Remote Sens. 9, 1065 (2017).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  8. Teluguntla, P. et al. NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Global Food Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD) @ 30-m for Australia, New Zealand, China, and Mongolia: Cropland Extent Product (GFSAD30AUNZCNMOCE) (NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC, 2017).

  9. Oliphant, A. J. et al. NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Global Food Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD) @ 30-m for Southeast and Northeast Asia: Cropland Extent Product (GFSAD30SEACE) (NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC, 2017).

  10. Gumma, M. K. et al. NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Global Food Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD) @ 30-m for South Asia, Afghanistan and Iran: Cropland Extent Product (GFSAD30SAAFGIRCE) (NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC, 2017).

  11. Phalke, A. et al. NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Global Food Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD) @ 30-m for Europe, Middle-East, Russia and Central Asia: Cropland Extent Product (GFSAD30EUCEARUMECE) (NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC, 2017).

  12. Massey, R. et al. NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Global Food Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD) @ 30m for North America: Cropland Extent Product (GFSAD30NACE) (NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC, 2017).

  13. Zhong, Y. et al. NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Global Food Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD) @ 30-m for South America: Cropland Extent Product (GFSAD30SACE) (NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC, 2017).

  14. Khasanah, N., van Noordwijk, M. & Ningsih, H. Aboveground carbon stocks in oil palm plantations and the threshold for carbon-neutral vegetation conversion on mineral soils. Cogent Environ. Sci. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311843.2015.1119964 (2015).

  15. IPCC. Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (2006).

  16. Erb, K.-H. et al. Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass. Nature 553, 73–76 (2018).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  17. Li, W. et al. Gross and net land cover changes in the main plant functional types derived from the annual ESA CCI land cover maps (1992–2015). Earth Syst. Sci. Data 10, 219–234 (2018).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  18. Poulter, B. et al. Plant functional type classification for earth system models: results from the European Space Agency's Land Cover Climate Change Initiative. Geosci. Model Dev. 8, 2315–2328 (2015).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  19. Goldewijk, K. K., Beusen, A., Doelman, J. & Stehfest, E. Anthropogenic land use estimates for the Holocene — HYDE 3.2. Earth Syst. Sci. Data 9, 927–953 (2017).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  20. Leclère, D. et al. Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy. Nature 585, 551–556 (2020).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Contributions

B.B.N.S. wrote the first version of the paper. All authors provided input on subsequent versions of the Reply.

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Bernardo B. N. Strassburg.

Ethics declarations

Competing interests

The authors declare no competing interests.

Additional information

Publisher’s note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Strassburg, B.B.N., Iribarrem, A., Beyer, H.L. et al. Reply to: The risks of overstating the climate benefits of ecosystem restoration. Nature 609, E4–E6 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04882-z

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04882-z

Comments

By submitting a comment you agree to abide by our Terms and Community Guidelines. If you find something abusive or that does not comply with our terms or guidelines please flag it as inappropriate.

Search

Quick links

Nature Briefing Anthropocene

Sign up for the Nature Briefing: Anthropocene newsletter — what matters in anthropocene research, free to your inbox weekly.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing: Anthropocene