Journal
FORESTS
Volume 13, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/f13071087
Keywords
ecosystem services; forest resources; bibliometric analysis; human disturbance
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- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2017YFC0505604]
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Forest resources and the ecosystem services they provide have a significant impact on national and regional economies, human well-being, biodiversity conservation, and climate change mitigation. Research on forest ecosystem services has rapidly developed over the past 23 years, with hotspots including payments for ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, and forest governance. Future research will focus on the mechanisms of ecosystem service formation, interactions at different scales, and the correlation between forest ecosystem services and human well-being.
Forest resources and the flow of ecosystem services they provide play a key role in supporting national and regional economies, improving people's lives, protecting biodiversity, and mitigating the impacts of climate change. Based on the ISI (Institute of Scientific Information) Web of Science (WoS) database, we used a bibliometric approach to analyze the research status, evolution process, and hotspots of forest ecosystem services (FES) from a compilation of 8797 documents published between 1997 and 2019. The results indicated that: (1) research on forest ecosystem services has developed rapidly over the past 23 years. Institutions in the United States and other developed countries have significantly contributed to undertake research on the topic of ecosystem services. (2) The 11 hotpot key focus areas of completed research were payments for ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, forest governance, ecosystem approaches, climate change, nitrogen, ecosystem management, pollination, cities, ecological restoration, and policy. (3) The trade-off relationships among ecosystem services, ecosystem resilience and stability have become the research frontier in this field. (4) Future research on FES will likely focus on the formation and evolution mechanism of ecosystem services; the interaction, feedback and intrinsic connections of ecosystem services at different scales; analysis of the trade-offs and synergies; unified evaluation standards, evaluation systems, model construction and scenario analyses; in-depth studies of the internal correlation mechanism between forest ecosystem services and human wellbeing; and realization of cross-disciplinary and multi-method integration in sustainable forest management and decision-making.
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