Authors: Snäll, Tord;

The Biodiversity Crisis in a Changing World requires acknowledging multiscale policy development and land-use planning. Global policy for future biodiversity conservation is ultimately implemented at landscape and local scales. Correspondingly, landscape-scale green infrastructure planning needs to account for future socio-economic dynamics at national and global scales. This includes deciding on the use of forests to mitigate climate change. Besides raw materials and biodiversity, forests provide multiple ecosystem services, including stress relief and reduction. However, holistic analyses of forests to meet the growing demand of wood and still retain multiple ecosystem services and biodiversity are still sparse. In the introduction of this symposium, I will present an approach to account for global Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) or climate change mitigation, and the global demand for wood that they may bring with them, in projections of future woody and non-woody ecosystem services (ES), stress relief and reduction and multiple measures of biodiversity. Making reliable projections of biodiversity into the future requires models accurately reflecting interactions among species with different traits and acknowledging uncertainties. I will further introduce our approaches to account for these.