Levels of forest ecosystem services depend on specific mixtures of commercial tree species.

Jonsson, MicaelUmeå universitet,Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap (author)

Global and local ecosystem change resulting in diversity loss has motivated efforts to understand relationships between species diversity and ecosystem services. However, it is unclear how such a general understanding can inform policies for the management of ecosystem services in production systems, because these systems are primarily used for food or fibre, and are rarely managed for the conservation of species diversity. Here, using data from a nationwide forest inventory covering an area of 230,000km2, we show that relative abundances of commercial tree species in mixed stands strongly influence the potential to provide ecosystem services. The mixes provided higher levels of ecosystem services compared to respective plant monocultures (overyielding or transgressive overyielding) in 35% of the investigated cases, and lower (underyielding) in 9% of the cases. We further show that relative abundances, not just species richness per se, of specific tree-species mixtures affect the potential of forests to provide multiple ecosystem services, which is crucial information for policy and sustainable forest management.

Bengtsson, JanSwedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Institutionen för ekologi,Department of Ecology(Swepub:slu)46939 (author)
Gamfeldt, Lars,1975Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för marina vetenskaper,Department of marine sciences(Swepub:gu)xgamla (author)
Moen, JonUmeå universitet,Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap(Swepub:umu)jomo0002 (author)
Snäll, TordSwedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,ARTDATABANKEN,Swedish Species Information Centre(Swepub:slu)50511 (author)
Umeå universitetInstitutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap (creator_code:org_t)
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet

In:Nature Plants: Springer Science and Business Media LLC5, s. 141-1472055-02782055-026X

By the author/editor: Jonsson, Micael; Bengtsson, Jan; Gamfeldt, Lars, ...; Moen, Jon; Snäll, Tord

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AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES: AGRICULTURAL SCI ...; and Agriculture Fore ...; and Forest Science

By the university: University of Gothenburg; Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Umeå University

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