Managing forests for competing goals

Jessica Gurevitch^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
² Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.

Comment

Jessica Gurevitch. Science. 2022.

. 2022 May 20;376(6595):792-793.

doi: 10.1126/science.abp8463. Epub 2022 May 19.

Jessica Gurevitch^{1

2}

¹ Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
² Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.

Abstract

Tree plantations face difficult trade-offs between production and ecological goals.

The biodiversity and ecosystem service contributions and trade-offs of forest restoration approaches.
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