For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests

• Published in: Conservation letters Vol. 15; no. 1
• Main Authors: Messier, Christian, Bauhus, Jürgen, Sousa‐Silva, Rita, Auge, Harald, Baeten, Lander, Barsoum, Nadia, Bruelheide, Helge, Caldwell, Benjamin, Cavender‐Bares, Jeannine, Dhiedt, Els, Eisenhauer, Nico, Ganade, Gislene, Gravel, Dominique, Guillemot, Joannès, Hall, Jefferson S., Hector, Andrew, Hérault, Bruno, Jactel, Hervé, Koricheva, Julia, Kreft, Holger, Mereu, Simone, Muys, Bart, Nock, Charles A., Paquette, Alain, Parker, John D., Perring, Michael P., Ponette, Quentin, Potvin, Catherine, Reich, Peter B., Scherer‐Lorenzen, Michael, Schnabel, Florian, Verheyen, Kris, Weih, Martin, Wollni, Meike, Zemp, Delphine Clara
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.01.2022; Wiley
• Subjects: Biodiversity; climate change mitigation; ecological resilience; Ecosystem services; Ecosystems; Environmental conditions; Environmental Sciences; forest functioning; forest landscape restoration; Forest Science; Forestry; Forests; Harvest; intensive forestry; Miljövetenskap; Plant diversity; Plant species; Plantations; Resilience; Skogsvetenskap; Species diversity; sustainable forest management; Timber; Trees; Canada; United States > US; China; sustainable forest management; climate change mitigation; forest landscape restoration; forest functioning; Biodiversity; resilience; ecosystem services; plantations

As of 2020, the world has an estimated 290 million ha of planted forests and this number is continuously increasing. Of these, 131 million ha are monospecific planted forests under intensive management. Although monospecific planted forests are important in providing timber, they harbor less biodive...