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Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests

Overview of attention for article published in Science, October 2016
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Title
Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests
Published in
Science, October 2016
DOI 10.1126/science.aaf8957
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Authors

Jingjing Liang, Thomas W Crowther, Nicolas Picard, Susan Wiser, Mo Zhou, Giorgio Alberti, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, A David McGuire, Fabio Bozzato, Hans Pretzsch, Sergio de-Miguel, Alain Paquette, Bruno Hérault, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Christopher B Barrett, Henry B Glick, Geerten M Hengeveld, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Sebastian Pfautsch, Helder Viana, Alexander C Vibrans, Christian Ammer, Peter Schall, David Verbyla, Nadja Tchebakova, Markus Fischer, James V Watson, Han Y H Chen, Xiangdong Lei, Mart-Jan Schelhaas, Huicui Lu, Damiano Gianelle, Elena I Parfenova, Christian Salas, Eungul Lee, Boknam Lee, Hyun Seok Kim, Helge Bruelheide, David A Coomes, Daniel Piotto, Terry Sunderland, Bernhard Schmid, Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury, Bonaventure Sonké, Rebecca Tavani, Jun Zhu, Susanne Brandl, Jordi Vayreda, Fumiaki Kitahara, Eric B Searle, Victor J Neldner, Michael R Ngugi, Christopher Baraloto, Lorenzo Frizzera, Radomir Bałazy, Jacek Oleksyn, Tomasz Zawiła-Niedźwiecki, Olivier Bouriaud, Filippo Bussotti, Leena Finér, Bogdan Jaroszewicz, Tommaso Jucker, Fernando Valladares, Andrzej M Jagodzinski, Pablo L Peri, Christelle Gonmadje, William Marthy, Timothy O'Brien, Emanuel H Martin, Andrew R Marshall, Francesco Rovero, Robert Bitariho, Pascal A Niklaus, Patricia Alvarez-Loayza, Nurdin Chamuya, Renato Valencia, Frédéric Mortier, Verginia Wortel, Nestor L Engone-Obiang, Leandro V Ferreira, David E Odeke, Rodolfo M Vasquez, Simon L Lewis, Peter B Reich

Abstract

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.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 9 <1%
United Kingdom 5 <1%
Germany 3 <1%
Switzerland 3 <1%
Finland 3 <1%
Brazil 3 <1%
Japan 2 <1%
Colombia 2 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Other 10 <1%
Unknown 1728 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 359 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 307 17%
Student > Master 221 12%
Student > Bachelor 131 7%
Professor 84 5%
Other 301 17%
Unknown 366 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 555 31%
Environmental Science 491 28%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 82 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 27 2%
Engineering 24 1%
Other 128 7%
Unknown 462 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 919. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 February 2024.
All research outputs
#18,743
of 25,559,053 outputs
Outputs from Science
#915
of 83,117 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#307
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Outputs of similar age from Science
#15
of 1,137 outputs
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