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Introduction to Part II: Drivers and Their Risks for Ecosystems, Their Functions, and Services

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The first framework for characterizing human impact on biological systems was developed to study biotic responses of different human impact factors like air, water and soil pollution, and general land use.

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  1. Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Halle, Germany

    Cornelia Baessler & Stefan Klotz

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  1. Cornelia Baessler
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Correspondence to Cornelia Baessler .

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  1. Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Matthias Schröter

  2. Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Aletta Bonn

  3. Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Halle, Germany

    Stefan Klotz

  4. Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Ralf Seppelt

  5. Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Halle, Germany

    Cornelia Baessler

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Baessler, C., Klotz, S. (2019). Introduction to Part II: Drivers and Their Risks for Ecosystems, Their Functions, and Services. In: Schröter, M., Bonn, A., Klotz, S., Seppelt, R., Baessler, C. (eds) Atlas of Ecosystem Services. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96229-0_7

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