Sequestering carbon and restoring renosterveld through fallowing: a practical conservation approach for the Overberg, Cape Floristic Region, South Africa

摘要: Carbon credits are a potential source of funding for restoration initiatives that contribute to achieving conservation targets in important biodiversity areas. Here we investigated whether fallowing sequesters carbon; first step assessing the viability using carbon financing promote threatened vegetation agricultural landscapes. We used renosterveld, critically endangered shrubland Cape Floristic Region, as case study. stocks soil and biomass active fields, fallow fields intact renosterveld were compared. The total measured (82 Mg C ha−1) show can sequester lost conversion from (84 (69 revenues US$ 10 – 48 ha−1 yr−1 could accrue. Our findings suggest be incentivise ecological marginal