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Spatial congruence between biodiversity and ecosystem services in South Africa

2009-03-01

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Ecosystems services sustain humans all over the world. The unsustainable use of ecosystem services around the world has led to widespread degradation which now threatens human health and livelihoods. Although the maintenance of ecosystem services is often used to justify biodiversity conservation actions, it is still unclear how ecosystem services relate to different aspects of biodiversity and to what extent the...

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Literature Corpus work: eda4649e-3445-50d9-a09f-164acb14a786
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.11.009

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