Climate response to Nature Future scenarios in a regional Earth System Model
Petra Sieber · Dirk Nikolaus Karger · Niklaus E. Zimmermann · Sara Si-Moussi · Wilfried Thuiller · Gabriele Midolo · Milan Chytrý · Irena Axmanová · Jonas Schwaab · Edouard L. Davin · Matthieu Leclair · Stephan Kambach · Helge Bruelheide · Thomas Hickler · Zvjezdana Stančić · Idoia Biurrun · Behlül Güler · Jürgen Dengler · Jan Divíšek · Peter H. Verburg · Sonia I. Seneviratne
期刊Nature Communications / Nat Commun
类型Article
发表2026-03-16 (online)
卷期页17(1): 4017
收录2026-10-04
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关键词land use managementNature Futures FrameworkKunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Frameworkregional climate changeland-atmosphere interactionsalbedoevapotranspirationland use scenariosbiodiversity conservationnature restoration
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土地利用管理有助于应对人为造成的气候和生物多样性危机。然而,要实现国际社会就自然保护、恢复、可持续农业和森林覆盖率达成的共识目标,土地系统需要进行实质性的变革。此类变革会影响陆地与大气之间的能量、水和碳交换,并通过改变反照率和蒸散量,对局部乃至区域气候产生尤为显著的影响。本文探讨了在昆明-蒙特利尔全球生物多样性框架、自然未来框架以及可持续低排放情景的框架下,欧洲的土地利用管理将如何影响本世纪中叶的欧洲气候。我们利用地球系统模型和详细的土地利用、栖息地和物种预测数据,表明以关系价值(自然即文化)为指导的政策实施可能会导致进一步的升温和干旱,从而进一步威胁生物多样性和人类福祉。相反,倡导内在价值(自然服务于自然)或生态系统服务(自然服务于社会)则不会给气候适应和减缓带来重大挑战。这些不同的结果凸显了制定综合土地利用方案的必要性,这些方案既能增强生物多样性,又能稳定气候,同时还要考虑土地对大气的反馈作用。此类方案有助于权衡利弊,并为欧洲的政策实施提供参考。
Land use management can help address the human-induced climate and biodiversity crises. However, substantial transformations in land systems are needed to meet internationally agreed targets concerning nature conservation, restoration, sustainable agriculture, and tree cover. Such transformations influence land-atmosphere exchanges of energy, water, and carbon, and could have particularly strong effects on local to regional climate through changes in albedo and evapotranspiration. Here, we explore how land use management in Europe, consistent with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, the Nature Futures Framework, and a sustainable low-emissions scenario, would affect the European climate mid-century. Using Earth System Modelling and detailed land use, habitat, and species projections, we show that policy implementation guided by relational values (Nature as Culture) could lead to additional warming and drying further threatening biodiversity and human well-being. Conversely, promoting intrinsic values (Nature for Nature) or ecosystem services (Nature for Society) would not add major challenges for climate adaptation and mitigation. These different outcomes highlight the need to develop integrative land use scenarios that enhance biodiversity and stabilise the climate, while considering feedbacks from land to the atmosphere. Such scenarios could help navigate trade-offs and inform policy implementation in Europe.

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author = {Petra Sieber and Dirk Nikolaus Karger and Niklaus E. Zimmermann and Sara Si-Moussi and Wilfried Thuiller and Gabriele Midolo and Milan Chytrý and Irena Axmanová and Jonas Schwaab and Edouard L. Davin and Matthieu Leclair and Stephan Kambach and Helge Bruelheide and Thomas Hickler and Zvjezdana Stančić and Idoia Biurrun and Behlül Güler and Jürgen Dengler and Jan Divíšek and Peter H. Verburg and Sonia I. Seneviratne},
title = {Climate response to Nature Future scenarios in a regional Earth System Model},
journal = {Nature Communications},
year = {2026},
volume = {17},
number = {1},
pages = {4017},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-026-70284-8},
publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},
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