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A Continental-Scale Validation of Ecosystem Service Models

2019-12-01

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Faced with environmental degradation, governments worldwide are developing policies to safeguard ecosystem services (ES). Many ES models exist to support these policies, but they are generally poorly validated, especially at large scales, which undermines their credibility. To address this gap, we describe a study of multiple models of five ES, which we validate at an unprecedented scale against 1675 data points a...

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Literature Corpus work: d7a09525-3012-509e-a4c0-432db615f26f
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-019-00380-y

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