Why Animals Are a Critical Part of Forest Carbon Absorption

A team of MIT researchers, with support from the MCSC, are studying how reductions in biodiversity can jeopardize one of Earth’s most powerful levers for mitigating climate change. Their new paper in PNAS, co-authored by Evan Fricke, Charles Harvey, César Terrer, and Susan Cook-Patton, explains how decreases in seed-dispersing animals can lead to a major reduction in forest carbon absorption. Read more in MIT News.