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The changing Himalayan landscape: pine-oak forest dynamics and the supply of ecosystem services
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This review summarizes the current state of knowledge on pine and oak forest dynamics in the midmontane central Himalayan forest and the ecosystem services associated with these vegetation types.Forest ecosystems play a crucial role in the livelihood of the central Himalayas as well as the adjacent plains,providing a number of tangible and intangible ecosystem services,at each stage of succession.The successional sequence starts from warm temperate grasslands,followed by early successional pine forests,mid-successional pine-oak mixed forests and eventually culminating in a late successional oak community.This successional sequence is considerably influenced by disturbances like fire,grazing,and lopping,which maintain the vegetation types in their current form and can act as potential drivers of change.Fire and grazing in grasslands and pine forests inhibit the successional process by hindering the establishment of pioneer and late successional species,respectively.Potential land-cover changes with forest succession can lead to changes in ecosystem services supply.We found that the number of ecosystem services associated with these vegetation types increase from early to late successional community.Current management approaches fail to include the dynamic nature of vegetation,which is essential for maintenance of ecosystem service supply.In conclusion,the trade-offs between ES of global (biodiversity and carbon) and local importance (fuel wood and fodder) have to be examined carefully in order to have effective conservation and management plans for the region.
DisturbanceEcosystem servicesHimalayaOakPine
Niyati Naudiyal、Joachim Schmerbeck
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Department of Natural Resources, TERI University, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110070, India
Chair of Silviculture, Institute of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Tennenbacher Str.4, 79085 Freiburg, Germany
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