Dr. Jeffrey Smith, Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University’s High Meadow Environmental Institute, published a new study this week in Science evaluating how various climate change mitigation strategies affect biodiversity. In collaboration with scientists Dr. Jonathan Levine, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton, Dr. Evelyn Beaury, former HMEI Post-Doctoral Research Scholar now at The New York Botanical Garden, and Dr. Susan Cook-Patton, Senior Forest Restoration Scientist for The Nature Conservancy - the team found that reforestation has wide-reaching benefits with impacts ranging from improving local habitat for biodiversity to globally reducing the biodiversity impacts of climate change.
Read the full High Meadows Environmental Institute article here