A meta-analysis of functional group responses to forest recovery outside of the tropics.

ABSTRACT: Both active and passive forest restoration schemes are used in degraded landscapes across the world to enhance biodiversity and ecosystem service provision. Restoration is increasingly also being implemented in biodiversity offset schemes as compensation for loss of natural habitat to anthropogenic development. This has raised concerns about the value of replacing old-growth forest with plantations, motivating research on biodiversity recovery as forest stands age. Functional diversity is now advocated as a key metric for restoration success, yet it has received little analytical attention to date. We conducted a meta-analysis of 90 studies that measured differences in species richness for functional groups of fungi, lichens, and beetles between old-growth control and planted or secondary

SUBMITTER: Spake R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4973697 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature