Nature Communications (Jun 2016)
Compositional diversity of rehabilitated tropical lands supports multiple ecosystem services and buffers uncertainties
- Thomas Knoke,
- Carola Paul,
- Patrick Hildebrandt,
- Baltazar Calvas,
- Luz Maria Castro,
- Fabian Härtl,
- Martin Döllerer,
- Ute Hamer,
- David Windhorst,
- Yolanda F. Wiersma,
- Giulia F. Curatola Fernández,
- Wolfgang A. Obermeier,
- Julia Adams,
- Lutz Breuer,
- Reinhard Mosandl,
- Erwin Beck,
- Michael Weber,
- Bernd Stimm,
- Wolfgang Haber,
- Christine Fürst,
- Jörg Bendix
Affiliations
- Thomas Knoke
- Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Institute of Forest Management, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München
- Carola Paul
- Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Institute of Forest Management, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München
- Patrick Hildebrandt
- Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Institute of Silviculture, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München
- Baltazar Calvas
- Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Institute of Forest Management, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München
- Luz Maria Castro
- Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Institute of Forest Management, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München
- Fabian Härtl
- Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Institute of Forest Management, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München
- Martin Döllerer
- Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Institute of Forest Management, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München
- Ute Hamer
- Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Muenster
- David Windhorst
- Institute for Landscape Ecology and Resources Management, Justus Liebig University Giessen
- Yolanda F. Wiersma
- Department of Biology, Memorial University
- Giulia F. Curatola Fernández
- Laboratory for Climatology and Remote Sensing (LCRS), Faculty of Geography, University of Marburg
- Wolfgang A. Obermeier
- Laboratory for Climatology and Remote Sensing (LCRS), Faculty of Geography, University of Marburg
- Julia Adams
- Department of Plant Physiology and Bayreuth Centre of Ecology and Environmental Research, University of Bayreuth
- Lutz Breuer
- Institute for Landscape Ecology and Resources Management, Justus Liebig University Giessen
- Reinhard Mosandl
- Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Institute of Silviculture, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München
- Erwin Beck
- Department of Plant Physiology and Bayreuth Centre of Ecology and Environmental Research, University of Bayreuth
- Michael Weber
- Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Institute of Silviculture, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München
- Bernd Stimm
- Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Institute of Silviculture, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München
- Wolfgang Haber
- Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Chair of Terrestrial Ecology, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München
- Christine Fürst
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research-Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Campus Alpin
- Jörg Bendix
- Laboratory for Climatology and Remote Sensing (LCRS), Faculty of Geography, University of Marburg
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11877
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 7,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 12
Abstract
Land use becomes more diverse when it considers uncertain interactions of multiple ecosystem services. Here, Knoke and colleagues show that uncertainty plays a larger role if ecosystem services are optimized only for a single service, or if services correlate.