Compositional diversity of rehabilitated tropical lands supports multiple ecosystem services and buffers uncertainties

Thomas Knoke, Carola Paul, Patrick Hildebrandt, Baltazar Calvas, Luz María Castro Quezada (), 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 and Jörg Bendix
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Carola Paul: Institute of Forest Management, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München
Patrick Hildebrandt: Institute of Silviculture, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München
Baltazar Calvas: Institute of Forest Management, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München
Fabian Härtl: Institute of Forest Management, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München
Martin Döllerer: 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: 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: University of Bayreuth
Lutz Breuer: Institute for Landscape Ecology and Resources Management, Justus Liebig University Giessen
Reinhard Mosandl: Institute of Silviculture, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München
Erwin Beck: University of Bayreuth
Michael Weber: Institute of Silviculture, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München
Bernd Stimm: Institute of Silviculture, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München
Wolfgang Haber: 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

Nature Communications, 2016, vol. 7, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: Abstract High landscape diversity is assumed to increase the number and level of ecosystem services. However, the interactions between ecosystem service provision, disturbance and landscape composition are poorly understood. Here we present a novel approach to include uncertainty in the optimization of land allocation for improving the provision of multiple ecosystem services. We refer to the rehabilitation of abandoned agricultural lands in Ecuador including two types of both afforestation and pasture rehabilitation, together with a succession option. Our results show that high compositional landscape diversity supports multiple ecosystem services (multifunction effect). This implicitly provides a buffer against uncertainty. Our work shows that active integration of uncertainty is only important when optimizing single or highly correlated ecosystem services and that the multifunction effect on landscape diversity is stronger than the uncertainty effect. This is an important insight to support a land-use planning based on ecosystem services.

Date: 2016
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