The biodiversity and ecosystem service contributions and trade-offs of forest restoration approaches

doi:10.1126/science.abl4649

. 2022 May 20;376(6595):839-844.

doi: 10.1126/science.abl4649. Epub 2022 Mar 17.

The biodiversity and ecosystem service contributions and trade-offs of forest restoration approaches

Fangyuan Hua^{1

2}, L Adrian Bruijnzeel^{3

4}, Paula Meli^{5

6}, Philip A Martin^{2

7}, Jun Zhang^{4

8}, Shinichi Nakagawa⁹, Xinran Miao¹, Weiyi Wang¹, Christopher McEvoy², Jorge Luis Peña-Arancibia¹⁰, Pedro H S Brancalion⁵, Pete Smith¹¹, David P Edwards¹², Andrew Balmford²

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¹ Institute of Ecology and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P.R. China.
² Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK.
³ Department of Geography, King's College London, Bush House, London WC2B 4BG, UK.
⁴ Institute of International Rivers and Eco-Security, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, Yunnan, P.R. China.
⁵ Department of Forest Sciences, Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, SP, 13.418-900, Brazil.
⁶ Departmento de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad de La Frontera, Av. Francisco Salazar 01145, Temuco, Chile.
⁷ Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Edificio sede no 1, planta 1, Parque científico UPV/EHU, Barrio Sarriena s/n, 48940 Leioa, Bizkaia, Spain.
⁸ Environmental Modelling, Sensing & Analysis, TNO, 1755 LE Petten, Netherlands.
⁹ Evolution & Ecology Research Centre and School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
¹⁰ CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
¹¹ Institute of Biological & Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UU, UK.
¹² Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.

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DOI: 10.1126/science.abl4649

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The biodiversity and ecosystem service contributions and trade-offs of forest restoration approaches

Fangyuan Hua et al. Science. 2022.

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. 2022 May 20;376(6595):839-844.

doi: 10.1126/science.abl4649. Epub 2022 Mar 17.

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¹ Institute of Ecology and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P.R. China.
² Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK.
³ Department of Geography, King's College London, Bush House, London WC2B 4BG, UK.
⁴ Institute of International Rivers and Eco-Security, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, Yunnan, P.R. China.
⁵ Department of Forest Sciences, Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, SP, 13.418-900, Brazil.
⁶ Departmento de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad de La Frontera, Av. Francisco Salazar 01145, Temuco, Chile.
⁷ Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Edificio sede no 1, planta 1, Parque científico UPV/EHU, Barrio Sarriena s/n, 48940 Leioa, Bizkaia, Spain.
⁸ Environmental Modelling, Sensing & Analysis, TNO, 1755 LE Petten, Netherlands.
⁹ Evolution & Ecology Research Centre and School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
¹⁰ CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
¹¹ Institute of Biological & Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UU, UK.
¹² Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.

PMID: 35298279
DOI: 10.1126/science.abl4649

Abstract

Forest restoration is being scaled up globally to deliver critical ecosystem services and biodiversity benefits; however, there is a lack of rigorous comparison of cobenefit delivery across different restoration approaches. Through global synthesis, we used 25,950 matched data pairs from 264 studies in 53 countries to assess how delivery of climate, soil, water, and wood production services, in addition to biodiversity, compares across a range of tree plantations and native forests. Benefits of aboveground carbon storage, water provisioning, and especially soil erosion control and biodiversity are better delivered by native forests, with compositionally simpler, younger plantations in drier regions performing particularly poorly. However, plantations exhibit an advantage in wood production. These results underscore important trade-offs among environmental and production goals that policy-makers must navigate in meeting forest restoration commitments.

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Managing forests for competing goals.
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