Landscapes' capacities to provide ecosystem services - A concept for land-cover based assessments
Landscapes differ in their capacities to provide ecosystem goods and services, which are the benefits humans obtain from nature. Structures and functions of ecosystems needed to sustain the provision of ecosystem services are altered by various human activities. In this paper, a concept for the asse...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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International Association for Landscape Ecology, Chapter Germany
2009-12-01
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Series: | Landscape Online |
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Online Access: | https://www.landscape-online.org/index.php/lo/article/view/75 |