Permaculture Research Digest

Thursday 24 January 2013

Biodiversity-productivty relationships in plantations (#journal)

Biodiversity–productivity relationships in small-scale mixed-species plantations using native species in Leyte province, Philippines

Nguyen et al Forest Ecology and Management Volume 274


Looks at the relationship between tree species diversity, biodiversity and productivity in plantations. Concludes that management practices and species selection are crucial in determining biodiversity and productivity; simply planting mixed species is not beneficial to either.

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