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Provisioning Ecosystem Services at Risk: Pollination Benefits and Pollination Dependency of Cropping Systems at the Global Scale

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Pollination by animals is an important service for wild plant communities [1, 2] and agricultural ecosystems [3].

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  1. Agricultural Faculty, Department of Land Use Modeling and Ecosystem Services, Institute for Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    Sven Lautenbach

  2. GIScience Group, Institute of Geography, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Sven Lautenbach

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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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Lautenbach, S. (2019). Provisioning Ecosystem Services at Risk: Pollination Benefits and Pollination Dependency of Cropping Systems at the Global Scale. 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_16

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