Multiple forest attributes underpin the supply of multiple ecosystem services

María R. Felipe-Lucia (), Santiago Soliveres, Caterina Penone, Peter Manning, Fons van der Plas, Steffen Boch, Daniel Prati, Christian Ammer, Peter Schall, Martin M. Gossner, Jürgen Bauhus, Francois Buscot, Stefan Blaser, Nico Blüthgen, Angel de Frutos, Martin Ehbrecht, Kevin Frank, Kezia Goldmann, Falk Hänsel, Kirsten Jung, Tiemo Kahl, Thomas Nauss, Yvonne Oelmann, Rodica Pena, Andrea Polle, Swen Renner, Michael Schloter, Ingo Schöning, Marion Schrumpf, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Emily Solly, Elisabeth Sorkau, Barbara Stempfhuber, Marco Tschapka, Wolfgang W. Weisser, Tesfaye Wubet, Markus Fischer and Eric Allan
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María R. Felipe-Lucia: University of Bern
Santiago Soliveres: University of Bern
Caterina Penone: University of Bern
Peter Manning: Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBIK-F)
Fons van der Plas: Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBIK-F)
Steffen Boch: University of Bern
Daniel Prati: University of Bern
Christian Ammer: University of Göttingen
Peter Schall: University of Göttingen
Martin M. Gossner: Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
Jürgen Bauhus: University of Freiburg
Francois Buscot: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ
Stefan Blaser: University of Bern
Nico Blüthgen: Technische Universität Darmstadt
Angel de Frutos: University of Bern
Martin Ehbrecht: University of Göttingen
Kevin Frank: Technische Universität Darmstadt
Kezia Goldmann: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ
Falk Hänsel: Philipps-University Marburg
Kirsten Jung: University of Ulm
Tiemo Kahl: UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Thuringian Forest
Thomas Nauss: Philipps-University Marburg
Yvonne Oelmann: University of Tübingen
Rodica Pena: University of Goettingen
Andrea Polle: University of Goettingen
Swen Renner: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences
Michael Schloter: Helmholtz Zentrum München
Ingo Schöning: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Marion Schrumpf: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Ernst-Detlef Schulze: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Emily Solly: Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
Elisabeth Sorkau: University of Tübingen
Barbara Stempfhuber: Helmholtz Zentrum München
Marco Tschapka: University of Ulm
Wolfgang W. Weisser: Technical University of Munich
Tesfaye Wubet: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ
Markus Fischer: University of Bern
Eric Allan: University of Bern

Nature Communications, 2018, vol. 9, issue 1, 1-11

Abstract: Abstract Trade-offs and synergies in the supply of forest ecosystem services are common but the drivers of these relationships are poorly understood. To guide management that seeks to promote multiple services, we investigated the relationships between 12 stand-level forest attributes, including structure, composition, heterogeneity and plant diversity, plus 4 environmental factors, and proxies for 14 ecosystem services in 150 temperate forest plots. Our results show that forest attributes are the best predictors of most ecosystem services and are also good predictors of several synergies and trade-offs between services. Environmental factors also play an important role, mostly in combination with forest attributes. Our study suggests that managing forests to increase structural heterogeneity, maintain large trees, and canopy gaps would promote the supply of multiple ecosystem services. These results highlight the potential for forest management to encourage multifunctional forests and suggest that a coordinated landscape-scale strategy could help to mitigate trade-offs in human-dominated landscapes.

Date: 2018
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