Authors: Rogers, Paul C., Pinno, Bradley D., Šebesta, Jan, Albrectsen, Benedicte R., Li, Guoqing, Ivanova, Natalya, Kulakowski, Dominik, Kusbach, Antonín, Kuuluvainen, Timo, Landhäusser, Simon M., Liu, Hongyan, Myking, Tor, Pulkkinen, Pertti, Wen, Zhongming
Venue: Global Ecology and Conservation
Type: Publication
Abstract: Across the northern hemisphere, six species of aspen (Populus spp.) play a disproportionately important role in promoting biodiversity, sequestering carbon, limiting forest disturbances, and providing other ecosystem services. These species are illustrative of efforts to move beyond single-species conservation because they facilitate hundreds of plants and animals worldwide. This review is intended to place aspen in a global conservation context by focusing on the many scientific advances taking place in such biologically diverse systems. In th...
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Topics: 
Environmental resource management
Ecology
Agroforestry
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