Trade-offs between temporal stability and level of forest ecosystem services provisioning under climate change.

ABSTRACT: The ability of forests to continuously provide ecosystem services (ES) is threatened by rapid changes in climate and disturbance regimes. Consequently, these changes present a considerable challenge for forest managers. Management of forests often focuses on maximizing the level of ES provisioning over extended time frames (i.e., rotation periods of more than 100 yr). However, temporal stability is also crucial for many ES, for example, in the context of a steady provisioning of resources to the industry, or the protection of human infrastructure against natural hazards. How temporal stability and the level of ES provisioning are related is of increasing interest, particularly since changing climate and disturbance regimes amplify temporal variability in forest ecosystems. In this simulati

SUBMITTER: Albrich K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6378588 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature