The value of shifting cultivation for biodiversity in Northeast India

Shifting cultivation is a widespread land‐use in many tropical countries that also harbours significant levels of biodiversity. Increasing frequency of cultivation cycles and expansion into old‐growth forests have intensified the impacts of shifting cultivation on biodiversity and carbon sequestration. We assessed how bird diversity responds to shifting cultivation and the potential for co‐benefits for both biodiversity and carbon in such landscapes to inform carbon‐based payments for ecosystem service (PES) schemes.

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  2022

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  Diversity and Distributions: A journal of biological invasions and biodiversity

• Publication date

  2022-07-20

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  DOI 10.1111/ddi.13605
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