TY - JOUR
T1 - Multiple forest attributes underpin the supply of multiple ecosystem services
AU - Felipe-Lucia, María R.
AU - Soliveres, Santiago
AU - Penone, Caterina
AU - Manning, Peter
AU - van der Plas, Fons
AU - Boch, Steffen
AU - Prati, Daniel
AU - Ammer, Christian
AU - Schall, Peter
AU - Gossner, Martin M.
AU - Bauhus, Jürgen
AU - Buscot, Francois
AU - Blaser, Stefan
AU - Blüthgen, Nico
AU - de Frutos, Angel
AU - Ehbrecht, Martin
AU - Frank, Kevin
AU - Goldmann, Kezia
AU - Hänsel, Falk
AU - Jung, Kirsten
AU - Kahl, Tiemo
AU - Nauss, Thomas
AU - Oelmann, Yvonne
AU - Pena, Rodica
AU - Polle, Andrea
AU - Renner, Swen
AU - Schloter, Michael
AU - Schöning, Ingo
AU - Schrumpf, Marion
AU - Schulze, Ernst Detlef
AU - Solly, Emily
AU - Sorkau, Elisabeth
AU - Stempfhuber, Barbara
AU - Tschapka, Marco
AU - Weisser, Wolfgang W.
AU - Wubet, Tesfaye
AU - Fischer, Markus
AU - Allan, Eric
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, The Author(s).
PY - 2018/12/1
Y1 - 2018/12/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85056696384&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1038/s41467-018-07082-4
DO - 10.1038/s41467-018-07082-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 30446752
AN - SCOPUS:85056696384
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 9
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
IS - 1
M1 - 4839
ER -