Multiple forest attributes underpin the supply of multiple ecosystem services.

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, main

SUBMITTER: Felipe-Lucia MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6240034 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature