Relationships between species richness and ecosystem services in Amazonian forests strongly influenced by biogeographical strata and forest types.
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
08 04 2022
08 04 2022
Historique:
received:
17
12
2021
accepted:
28
03
2022
entrez:
9
4
2022
pubmed:
10
4
2022
medline:
13
4
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
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.
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pubmed: 35395860
doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-09786-6
pii: 10.1038/s41598-022-09786-6
pmc: PMC8993798
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7440-44-0
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Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
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