Enhancing landscape planning: Vegetation-mediated ecosystem services predicted by plant traits

• Published in: Landscape and urban planning Vol. 215; p. 104220
• Main Author: Kleyer, Michael
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.11.2021
• Subjects: Carbon sequestration; data collection; Denmark; ecosystems; Environmental impact assessment; Environmental planning; forage production; Germany; herbaceous plants; income; Income from forage production; Land management; landscapes; leaves; Nature conservation; Netherlands; Northern European region; probability; Regional plant rarity; reproduction; Soil organic carbon stocks; surveys; Denmark; Netherlands; Northern European region; Germany; Income from forage production; Environmental impact assessment; Land management; Regional plant rarity; Carbon sequestration; Soil organic carbon stocks; Environmental planning; Nature conservation

•An unprecedented set of plots with soil and management data, plant species cover and traits.•Relevant for herbaceous agricultural plant communities in northwest Europe.•Predictions to estimate farm income, plant rarity and soil carbon contents from plant traits.•Trade-offs favoring either high farm...