Disentangling Biodiversity and Climatic Determinants of Wood Production

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Authors

Montserrat Vilà · Estación Biológica de Doñana

Amparo Carrillo‐Gavilán · Estación Biológica de Doñana

Jordi Vayreda · Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications

Harald Bugmann · ETH Zurich

Jonas Fridman · Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

W. Grodzki

Josephine Haase · ETH Zurich

Abstract

Our analysis is the first to find a local scale positive relationship between tree species richness and tree wood production occurring across a continent. Our results strongly support incorporating the role of biodiversity in management and policy plans for forest carbon sequestration.

Topics & Keywords

Forest Management and Policy Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Life in Land

Publication Details

Published in: PLoS ONE

Volume 8, Issue 2, pp. e53530-e53530

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053530

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