Data from: Large ecosystem service benefits of assisted natural regeneration
Yusheng Yang, Lixin Wang, Zhijie Yang, Chao Xu, Jingsheng Xie, Guangshui Chen, Chengfang Lin, Jianfen Guo, Xiaofei Liu, Decheng Xiong, Weisheng Lin, Shidong Chen, Zongming He, Kaimiao Lin, Miaohua Jiang & Teng-Chiu Lin
China manages the largest monoculture plantations in the world, with 24% being Chinese fir plantations. Maximizing the ecosystem services of Chinese fir plantations has important implications in global carbon cycle and biodiversity protection. Assisted natural regeneration (ANR) is a practice to convert degraded lands into more productive forests with great ecosystems services. However, the quantitative understanding of ANR ecosystem service benefits is very limited. We conducted a comprehensive field manipulation experiment to evaluate the ANR...