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Helping nature help us - Transforming disaster risk reduction through ecosystem management
… Reference Drought Forest Tree mortality; Loss of forest biomass; Forest dieback Allen et al., 2010; Lewis et al., … montane forest Tree mortality, tree damage, loss of tree biomass Allen et al., 1999 Landslides Freshwater Change in … activity Ocean Ocean acidification, decrease in algae biomass, loss of calcareous organisms Hall-Spencer et al., …
Safe Havens: Protected Areas for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
… on photosynthetic activity and, in turn, vegetation biomass. The NDVI has a strong correlation with cereal crop … Restoration of degraded lands allowed increase in plant biomass and thus carbon sequestration, improved water … dense woody and succulent species, and has a much higher biomass than would be expected under semiarid conditions …