Nature & Environment
How do fire controls harm biodiversity?
...commune Aguas de Santa Barbara. They confirmed that a policy banning human-caused fires between 1986 and 2015 encouraged the growth of denser forest. This led to an increase, by 1.2 tons, of the carbon stored in both vegetation and soil in those areas since 1986. But at the same time, they found a reduction in the diversity of plants and ants in the same period, by 27 per...