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Relationships between species richness and ecosystem services in Amazonian forests strongly influenced by biogeographical strata and forest types / Gijs Steur in Scientific reports, vol 12 (2022)  

Public [article]  inScientific reports > vol 12 (2022) . - n° 5960 Titre : Relationships between species richness and ecosystem services in Amazonian forests strongly influenced by biogeographical strata and forest types Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Gijs Steur, Auteur ; Hans Ter Steege, Auteur ; René W. Verburg, Auteur ; Daniel Sabatier, Auteur ; Jean-François Molino, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 5960 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] Amazonie [Termes IGN] forêt tropicale [Termes IGN] produit forestier non ligneux [Termes IGN] puits de carbone [Termes IGN] richesse floristique [Termes IGN] service écosystémique [Termes IGN] strate végétale [Termes IGN] volume en bois [Vedettes matières IGN] Ecologie forestière Résumé : (auteur) Despite increasing attention for relationships between species richness and ecosystem services, for tropical forests such relationships are still under discussion. Contradicting relationships have been reported concerning carbon stock, while little is known about relationships concerning timber stock and the abundance of non-timber forest product producing plant species (NTFP abundance). Using 151 1-ha plots, we related tree and arborescent palm species richness to carbon stock, timber stock and NTFP abundance across the Guiana Shield, and using 283 1-ha plots, to carbon stock across all of Amazonia. We analysed how environmental heterogeneity influenced these relationships, assessing differences across and within multiple forest types, biogeographic regions and subregions. Species richness showed significant relationships with all three ecosystem services, but relationships differed between forest types and among biogeographical strata. We found that species richness was positively associated to carbon stock in all biogeographical strata. This association became obscured by variation across biogeographical regions at the scale of Amazonia, resembling a Simpson’s paradox. By contrast, species richness was weakly or not significantly related to timber stock and NTFP abundance, suggesting that species richness is not a good predictor for these ecosystem services. Our findings illustrate the importance of environmental stratification in analysing biodiversity-ecosystem services relationships. Numéro de notice : A2022-308 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : BIODIVERSITE/FORET Nature : Article DOI : 10.1038/s41598-022-09786-6 Date de publication en ligne : 08/04/2022 En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-09786-6 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=100403 [article]