What drives the future supply of regulating ecosystem services in a mountain forest landscape?

ABSTRACT: Forest ecosystems provide a wide variety of ecosystem services to society. In harsh mountain environments, the regulating services of forests are of particular importance. Managing mountain forests for regulating services is a cost- and labor intensive endeavor. Yet, also unmanaged forests regulate the environment. In the context of evidence-based decision making it is thus important to scrutinize if current management recommendations improve the supply of regulating ecosystem services over unmanaged development trajectories. A further issue complicating decision making in the context of regulating ecosystem services is their high sensitivity to climate change. Climate-mediated increases in natural disturbances, for instance, could strongly reduce the supply of regulating services from for

SUBMITTER: Seidl R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7612773 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature