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Query: Trade-offs between carbon stocks and biodiversity in European temperate
  forests   Policies to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss often assume that
protecting carbon-rich forests provides co-benefits in terms of biodiversity,
due to the spatial congruence of carbon stocks and biodiversity at
biogeographic scales. However, it remains unclear whether this holds at the
scales relevant for management, with particularly large knowledge gaps for
temperate forests and for taxa other than trees. We built a comprehensive
dataset of Central European temperate forest structure and multi-taxonomic
diversity (beetles, birds, bryophytes, fungi, lichens, and plants) across 352
plots. We used Boosted Regression Trees to assess the relationship between
above-ground live carbon stocks and (a) taxon-specific richness, (b) a unified
multidiversity index. We used Threshold Indicator Taxa ANalysis to explore
individual species' responses to changing above-ground carbon stocks and to
detect change-points in species composition along the carbon-stock gradient.
Our results reveal an overall weak and highly variable relationship between
richness and carbon stock at the stand scale, both for individual taxonomic
groups and for multidiversity. Similarly, the proportion of win-win and
trade-off species (i.e. species favored or disadvantaged by increasing carbon
stock, respectively) varied substantially across taxa. Win-win species
gradually replaced trade-off species with increasing carbon, without clear
thresholds along the above-ground carbon gradient, suggesting that
community-level surrogates (e.g. richness) might fail to detect critical
changes in biodiversity. Collectively, our analyses highlight that leveraging
co-benefits between carbon and biodiversity in temperate forest may require
stand-scale management that prioritizes either biodiversity or carbon-in order
to maximize co-benefits at broader scales. Importantly, this contrasts with
tropical forests, where climate [...]

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