The ecosystem service and biodiversity contributions and trade-offs of contrasting forest restoration approaches
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Authors
Hua, Fangyuan
Bruijnzeel, L Adrian
Meli, Paula
Martin, Philip A
Zhang, Jun
Nakagawa, Shinichi
Miao, Xinran
Wang, Weiyi
McEvoy, Christopher
Peña-Arancibia, Jorge
Brancauion, Pedro HS
Smith, Pete
Edwards, David P
Publication Date
2022-05-20Journal Title
Science
ISSN
0036-8075
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Type
Article
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Hua, F., Bruijnzeel, L. A., Meli, P., Martin, P. A., Zhang, J., Nakagawa, S., Miao, X., et al. (2022). The ecosystem service and biodiversity contributions and trade-offs of contrasting forest restoration approaches. Science https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abl4649
Abstract
Forest restoration is being scaled-up globally to deliver critical ecosystem services and biodiversity benefits, yet we lack rigorous comparison of co-benefit delivery across different restoration approaches. In a global synthesis, we use 25,950 matched data pairs from 264 studies in 53 countries to assess how delivery of climate, soil, water, and wood production services as well as biodiversity compares across a range of tree plantations and native forests. Carbon storage, water provisioning, and especially soil erosion control and biodiversity benefits are all delivered better by native forests, with compositionally simpler, younger plantations in drier regions performing particularly poorly. However, plantations exhibit an advantage in wood production. These results underscore important trade-offs among environmental and production goals that policymakers must navigate in meeting forest restoration commitments.
Sponsorship
Royal Society Newton International Fellowship NF160839 (FH)
São Paulo Research Foundation Postdoctoral Grant 2016/00052-9 (PM)
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abl4649
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/335345
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