Global synergies and trade-offs between multiple dimensions of biodiversity and ecosystem services.

ABSTRACT: Ensuring the persistence of biodiversity and ecosystem services represents a global challenge that need to be addressed with high urgency. Global priority areas can only be identified by means of an integrated prioritization approach that would not only preserve species numbers and ecosystem services, but also the evolutionary and functional components of diversity. In this study we combine global datasets on the distribution of mammals and birds with species traits and phylogenetic data and we identify conservation priorities for taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity, as well as for three ecosystem services, including potential for carbon sequestration, pollination potential and groundwater recharge. We show that, when priority areas are identified based only on individual, e.g

SUBMITTER: Girardello M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6449357 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature