Climate mitigation and biodiversity loss are intertwined but often treated as separate challenges. In this work led by @nperezmendez.bsky.social we argue that widely promoted water‑saving practices can lower GHG emissions yet harm freshwater biodiversity. We propose alternative management options.
Tatsuya Amano
🚨 New paper out in Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social
Climate mitigation in rice farming can’t operate in a carbon tunnel vision but needs to incorporate a spatiotemporal approach to prevent unintended negative side effects in freshwater biodiversity.
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
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Climate change mitigation and biodiversity loss are closely linked challenges, yet agricultural strategies often address them separately. Focusing on rice farming, this article shows that widely prom...
