Multiple forest attributes underpin the supply of multiple ecosystem services

• DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07082-4
• Publication Date: 2018-11-12T16:27:50Z
• Authors: María R. Felipe-L...; Santiago Soliveres; Caterina Penone; Peter Manning; Fons van der Plas; Steffen Boch; Daniel Prati; Christian Ammer; Peter Schall; Martin M. Gossner; Jürgen Bauhus; Francois Buscot; Stefan Blaser; Nico Blüthgen; Angel de Frutos; Martin Ehbrecht; Kevin Frank; Kezia Goldmann; Falk Hänsel; Kirsten Jung; Tiemo Kahl; Thomas Nauss; Yvonne Oelmann; Rodica Pena; Andrea Polle; Swen Renner; Michael Schloter; Ingo Schöning; Marion Schrumpf; Ernst-Detlef Schulze; Emily Solly; Elisabeth Sorkau; Barbara Stempfhuber; Marco Tschapka; Wolfgang W. Weisser; Tesfaye Wubet; Markus Fischer; Eric Allan
• Keywords: Temperate rainforest; Temperate forest; Ecoforestry

Trade-offs and synergies in the supply of forest ecosystem services are common but drivers these relationships poorly understood. To guide management that seeks to promote multiple services, we investigated between 12 stand-level attributes, including structure, composition, heterogeneity plant diversity, plus 4 environmental factors, proxies for 14 150 temperate plots. Our results show attributes best predictors most also good several trade-offs services. Environmental factors play an important role, mostly combination with attributes. study suggests managing forests increase structural heterogeneity, maintain large trees, canopy gaps would These highlight potential encourage multifunctional suggest a coordinated landscape-scale strategy could help mitigate human-dominated landscapes.