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

Authors :
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
Source :
Nature Communications, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2016)
Publication Year :
2016
Publisher :
Nature Portfolio, 2016.

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.

Subjects

Subjects :
Science

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20411723
Volume :
7
Issue :
1
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Nature Communications
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.2b249141e9db4dcba83c4e08b07b9f80
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11877