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Acknowledgments

This research, including salary for BRB, was supported by the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI ES2). KAB was supported by the UMN Institute on the Environment. A number of coauthors (AME, CDG, SSM, SAO, THR) are members of the Health & Ecosystems: Analysis of Linkages (HEAL) consortium. We are grateful to the staff of the Cape Eleuthera Institute for providing gracious meeting support. Laura Nieland assisted with graphic design.

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  1. Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 1954 Buford Avenue, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA

    Brett R. Bayles & Kate A. Brauman

  2. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA

    Joshua N. Adkins

  3. Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA

    Brian F. Allan

  4. Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA

    Alicia M. Ellis & Taylor H. Ricketts

  5. Global Health Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

    Tony L. Goldberg

  6. Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Christopher D. Golden & Samuel S. Myers

  7. Center for the Environment, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Christopher D. Golden & Samuel S. Myers

  8. College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA

    Diana S. Grigsby-Toussaint

  9. Wildlife Health and Health Policy Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, New York, NY, USA

    Christopher D. Golden & Steven A. Osofsky

  10. Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

    Jean B. Ristaino

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Bayles, B.R., Brauman, K.A., Adkins, J.N. et al. Ecosystem Services Connect Environmental Change to Human Health Outcomes. EcoHealth 13, 443–449 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-016-1137-5

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