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Multiple forest attributes underpin the supply of multiple ecosystem services

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  • María R. Felipe-Lucia

    (University of Bern)

  • Santiago Soliveres

    (University of Bern
    University of Alicante)

  • Caterina Penone

    (University of Bern)

  • Peter Manning

    (Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBIK-F))

  • Fons van der Plas

    (Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBIK-F)
    University of Leipzig)

  • Steffen Boch

    (University of Bern
    Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL)

  • Daniel Prati

    (University of Bern)

  • Christian Ammer

    (University of Göttingen)

  • Peter Schall

    (University of Göttingen)

  • Martin M. Gossner

    (Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
    Technical University of Munich)

  • Jürgen Bauhus

    (University of Freiburg)

  • Francois Buscot

    (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ
    German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig)

  • Stefan Blaser

    (University of Bern
    Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL)

  • Nico Blüthgen

    (Technische Universität Darmstadt)

  • Angel de Frutos

    (University of Bern)

  • Martin Ehbrecht

    (University of Göttingen)

  • Kevin Frank

    (Technische Universität Darmstadt)

  • Kezia Goldmann

    (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ)

  • Falk Hänsel

    (Philipps-University Marburg)

  • Kirsten Jung

    (University of Ulm)

  • Tiemo Kahl

    (UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Thuringian Forest)

  • Thomas Nauss

    (Philipps-University Marburg)

  • Yvonne Oelmann

    (University of Tübingen)

  • Rodica Pena

    (University of Goettingen)

  • Andrea Polle

    (University of Goettingen)

  • Swen Renner

    (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences)

  • Michael Schloter

    (Helmholtz Zentrum München
    Technical University of Munich)

  • Ingo Schöning

    (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry)

  • Marion Schrumpf

    (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry)

  • Ernst-Detlef Schulze

    (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry)

  • Emily Solly

    (Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
    Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry)

  • Elisabeth Sorkau

    (University of Tübingen)

  • Barbara Stempfhuber

    (Helmholtz Zentrum München)

  • Marco Tschapka

    (University of Ulm
    Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute)

  • Wolfgang W. Weisser

    (Technical University of Munich)

  • Tesfaye Wubet

    (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ
    German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig)

  • Markus Fischer

    (University of Bern
    Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBIK-F))

  • Eric Allan

    (University of Bern)

Abstract

Trade-offs and synergies in the supply of forest ecosystem services are common but the drivers of these relationships are poorly understood. To guide management that seeks to promote multiple services, we investigated the relationships between 12 stand-level forest attributes, including structure, composition, heterogeneity and plant diversity, plus 4 environmental factors, and proxies for 14 ecosystem services in 150 temperate forest plots. Our results show that forest attributes are the best predictors of most ecosystem services and are also good predictors of several synergies and trade-offs between services. Environmental factors also play an important role, mostly in combination with forest attributes. Our study suggests that managing forests to increase structural heterogeneity, maintain large trees, and canopy gaps would promote the supply of multiple ecosystem services. These results highlight the potential for forest management to encourage multifunctional forests and suggest that a coordinated landscape-scale strategy could help to mitigate trade-offs in human-dominated landscapes.

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  • María R. Felipe-Lucia & Santiago Soliveres & Caterina Penone & Peter Manning & Fons van der Plas & Steffen Boch & Daniel Prati & Christian Ammer & Peter Schall & Martin M. Gossner & Jürgen Bauhus & Fr, 2018. "Multiple forest attributes underpin the supply of multiple ecosystem services," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 9(1), pages 1-11, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:9:y:2018:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-018-07082-4
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07082-4
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