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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11877
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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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.