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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Main Authors: Benjamin Burkhard, Franziska Kroll, Felix Müller, Wilhelm Windhorst
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Association for Landscape Ecology, Chapter Germany 2009-12-01
Series:Landscape Online
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Online Access:https://www.landscape-online.org/index.php/lo/article/view/75