Forests and agroforestry as overlapping hotspots of woody species diversity and above-ground carbon storage in a Costa Rican landscape: a remote sensing analysis

Tropical land-use change strongly affects biological diversity and carbon cycling at multiple spatial levels. Evidence for synergies between ecosystem services (ES), such as carbon storage and biodiversity, has been accumulating for natural and managed ecosystems in the tropics and subtropics, and at a global scale. Less research has examined ES across different land-use types at a landscape-level, which is the most relevant for applied conservation and management. Agroforestry systems (AFS) off