%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Loft, T.
%A Cardoso, A.
%A Bond, W.J.
%A Gonçalves, F.M. P.
%A Machado, M.
%A Oliveras Menor, Imma
%A Staver, C.
%A Stevens, N.
%T Central Africa's mesic savannas should be conserved, not afforested
%D 2024
%L fdi:010092542
%G ENG
%J Global Change Biology
%@ 1354-1013
%K AFRIQUE CENTRALE
%M ISI:001238762200001
%N 6
%P e17369 [3 ]
%R 10.1111/gcb.17369
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010092542
%> https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2025-01/010092542.pdf
%V 30
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X Recent work has suggested fire suppression can be used to "restore" Central African savannas, increasing their biodiversity and capacity to sequester



carbon. Here, we rebut this proposal, by showing that Central Africa's savannas are ancient, biodiverse, and fire-dependent ecosystems.



Suppressing fire within them would permanently harm these savanna's biodiversity and degrade their functionality, likely without storing much



carbon long term.
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