Abstract
Tree planting has the potential to improve the livelihoods of millions of people as well as to support environmental services such as biodiversity conservation. Planting however needs to be executed wisely if benefits are to be achieved. We have developed the GlobalUsefulNativeTrees (GlobUNT) database to directly support the principles advocated by the ‘golden rules for reforestation’, including planting tree mixtures that maximize the benefits to local livelihoods and the diversity of native trees. Developed primarily by combining data from GlobalTreeSearch with the World Checklist of Useful Plant Species (WCUPS), GlobUNT includes 14,014 tree species that can be filtered for ten major use categories, across 242 countries and territories. The 14,014 species represent roughly a quarter of the tree species from GlobalTreeSearch and a third of the plant species from WCUPS. GlobUNT includes over 8000 species used as materials (9261 species; 68.4% of the total in WCUPS for that use category) or medicines (8283; 31.1%), over 2000 species with environmental uses (3317; 36.9%), used as human food (3310; 47.0%) or fuel (2162; 85.5%), over 1000 species used as gene sources (1552; 29.8%), animal food (1494; 33.7%), social uses (1396; 53.8%) or poisons (1109; 36.8%), and 712 species (68.4%) as insect food.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Artikelnummer | 12640 |
Tidsskrift | Scientific Reports |
Vol/bind | 13 |
Antal sider | 11 |
ISSN | 2045-2322 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 2023 |
Bibliografisk note
Funding Information:Funding were provided by Darwin Plus (The Overseas Territories Environment and Climate Fund) (Grant No. DAREX001) and Norways’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (Grant No. PATSPO II (Provision of Adequate Tree Seed Portfolios project, second phase)).
Funding Information:
We greatly appreciate funding provided by the Darwin Initiative to project DAREX001 of Developing a Global Biodiversity Standard certification for tree-planting and restoration and by Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative through the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ethiopia to the PATSPO project on Provision of Adequate Tree Seed Portfolio in Ethiopia. We thank Ian Dawson for his comments on earlier drafts of the manuscript and we also thank Kirsty Shaw, Katharine Davies and Galena Woodhouse for their useful suggestions on improving earlier drafts of GlobUNT. We also like to thank Rhett Harrison and an anonymous reviewer for their constructive comments and suggestions.
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