Farmers plant or preserve riparian buffers for various reasons, such as improving water quality, controlling erosion or maintaining hunting habitat. Now, a new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign underscores the benefits of riparian buffers to terrestrial biodiversity, finding that for every 10 percent increase in forest cover, an additional species is present.
Terrestrial biodiversity grows with tree cover
Olivia Reves samples eDNA from agricultural streams with varying forest cover.聽
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