Journal
SCIENCE
Volume 354, Issue 6309, Pages -Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf8957
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- West Virginia University under the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) McIntire-Stennis Funds [WVA00104, WVA00105]
- U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Long-Term Ecological Research Program at Cedar Creek [DEB-1234162]
- University of Minnesota Department of Forest Resources
- Institute on the Environment
- Architecture and Environment Department of Italcementi Group, Bergamo (Italy)
- Marie Sklodowska Curie fellowship
- Polish National Science Center [2011/02/A/NZ9/00108]
- French L'Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) (Centre d'Etude de la Biodiversite Amazonienne) [ANR-10-LABX-0025]
- General Directory of State Forest National Holding DB
- General Directorate of State Forests, Warsaw, Poland [1/07, OR/2717/3/11]
- 12th Five-Year Science and Technology Support Project of China [2012BAD22B02]
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research Program - NSF
- U.S. Forest Service
- National Research Foundation of Korea [NRF-2015R1C1A1A02037721]
- Korea Forest Service [S111215L020110, S211315L020120, S111415L080120]
- Promising-Pioneering Researcher Program through Seoul National University (SNU)
- New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's Science and Innovation Group
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Priority Program 1374 Biodiversity Exploratories
- Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cientifico y Tecnologico (FONDECYT) [1151495, 11110270]
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [RGPIN-2014-04181]
- CNPq [312075/2013]
- FAPESC [2013/TR441]
- General Directorate of State Forests, Warsaw, Poland
- Bavarian State Ministry for Nutrition, Agriculture, and Forestry [W07]
- Bavarian State Forest Enterprise (Bayerische Staatsforsten AoR)
- German Science Foundation [PR 292/12-1]
- European Union [FP1206 EuMIXFOR]
- FEDER/COMPETE/POCI [POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006958]
- FCT-Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology [UID/AGR/04033/2013]
- Swiss National Science Foundation [310030B_147092]
- EU H2020 PEGASUS project [633814]
- EU H2020 Simwood project [613762]
- European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program within the framework of the MultiFUNGtionality Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (IF-EF) [655815]
- Royal Society
- Natural Environment Research Council (UK)
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Valuing the Arc Project (Leverhulme Trust)
- European Union Seventh Framework Programme [265171]
- German Research Foundation [DFG FOR891]
- Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr
- Division of Computing and Communication Foundations [1522054] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1026415] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Korea Forest Service [S211315L020120, S111215L020110, S111415L080120] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [310030B_147092] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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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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