Resumen
The biodiversity-productivity relationship (BPR) is foundational to our understanding of the global extinction crisis and its impacts on ecosystem functioning. Understanding BPR is critical for the accurate valuation and effective conservation of biodiversity. Using ground-sourced data from 777,126 permanent plots, spanning 44 countries and most terrestrial biomes, we reveal a globally consistent positive concave-down BPR, showing that continued biodiversity loss would result in an accelerating decline in forest productivity worldwide. The value of biodiversity in maintaining commercial forest productivity alone - US$166 billion to 490 billion per year according to our estimation - is more than twice what it would cost to implement effective global conservation. This highlights the need for a worldwide reassessment of biodiversity values, forest management strategies, and conservation priorities.
Idioma original | Inglés |
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Número de artículo | aaf8957 |
Publicación | Science |
Volumen | 354 |
N.º | 6309 |
DOI | |
Estado | Publicada - 14 oct. 2016 |
Nota bibliográfica
Publisher Copyright:© 2016, American Association for the Advancement of Science. All rights reserved.
Financiación
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12th Five-Year Science and Technology Support Project | 2012BAD22B02 |
Alberta Department of Agriculture and Forestry | |
Architecture and Environment Department of Italcementi Group, Bergamo | |
BEF-China | |
Bavarian State Forest Enterprise | |
Bavarian State Ministry for Nutrition, Agriculture, and Forestry | |
Bayerische Staatsforsten AöR | |
CENAREST | |
EU H2020 | 633814 |
EU H2020 Simwood | 613762 |
Forestry Commission of New South Wales | |
IF-EF | 655815 |
Institut Centrafricain de Recherche Agronomique | |
Institut de Recherche en Ecologie Tropicale | |
Instituto de Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas | |
Italian and Friuli Venezia Giulia Forest Services | |
MEDDEFCP | |
Ministère de l'Environnement | |
National Vegetation Survey Databank | |
Polish State Forest Holding | |
Polish State Forest National Holding | |
Queensland Herbarium | |
SCAC | |
School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks | |
Seoul National University Forest | |
Service de Coopération et d'Actions Culturelles | |
Société Centrafricaine de Déroulage | |
State Forest National Holding | V13W29 |
State Forest National Holding DB | 1/07, OR/2717/3/11 |
Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems | |
U.S. government | |
University of Bangui | |
University of Minnesota Department of Forest Resources and Institute on the Environment | |
National Science Foundation | DEB-1234162 |
Smithsonian Institution | |
U.S. Department of Agriculture | WVA00105, WVA00104 |
U.S. Geological Survey | |
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation | |
Wildlife Conservation Society | |
U.S. Forest Service | |
Conservation International | |
West Virginia University | |
Seventh Framework Programme | 265171 |
Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs | |
Agricultural Research Foundation | |
Ministry of Environment - Saskatchewan | |
Ministerio del Ambiente, Agua y Transición Ecológica | |
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | RGPIN-2014-04181 |
Natural Environment Research Council | |
Leverhulme Trust | |
Royal Society | |
European Commission | |
European Cooperation in Science and Technology | POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006958 |
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | FOR891, PR 292/12-1 |
Agence Nationale de la Recherche | ANR-10-LABX-0025 |
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung | 310030B_147092 |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia | UID/AGR/04033/2013 |
Seoul National University | |
Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico | 1151495, 11110270 |
Ministerie van Economische Zaken | |
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico | 312075/2013 |
Korea Forest Service | S111215L020110, S111415L080120, S211315L020120 |
National Research Foundation of Korea | NRF-2015R1C1A1A02037721 |
Ministère des Affaires Etrangères | |
Narodowe Centrum Nauki | 2011/02/A/NZ9/00108 |
Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo | |
Seventh Framework Programme | |
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação do Estado de Santa Catarina | 2013/TR441 |
Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique | |
Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement | |
Horizon 2020 | |
Agence Française de Développement | |
Fundación Biodiversidad |