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Effect of biodiversity on economic benefits from communal lands in Namibia

2011-04-01

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1. The conservation of biodiversity is increasingly justified by claims that human livelihoods are improved through its protection. Nature's ecosystem services do indeed benefit people, but how necessary is a diversity of living things to provide these services? Most studies cited as addressing this question in natural systems do not actually quantify relevant metrics (e.g. species richness) and assess their relat...

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Literature Corpus work: 5aa66274-e866-5332-beb5-ceb88d4d9202
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01955.x

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