Plantations can provide the same ecosystem services as natural forests
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 09:42
in Earth & Climate
Not all plantations need to be the biological deserts that have come to characterise large-scale, industrial plantations. According to scientists in a paper out in February's issue of the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, well-planned plantations can actually alleviate some of the social, economic and ecological burden currently being placed on natural forests...