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The Ecosystem Service Concept: Linking Ecosystems and Human Wellbeing

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Which ecosystem services are addressed? General introduction to the ecosystem service concept.

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

    Matthias Schröter & Aletta Bonn

  2. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

    Matthias Schröter & Aletta Bonn

  3. International Institute (IHI) Zittau, Technische Universität Dresden, Zittau, Germany

    Irene Ring

  4. Department of Economics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Christoph Schröter-Schlaack

  5. Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

    Aletta Bonn

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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

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    Cornelia Baessler

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Schröter, M., Ring, I., Schröter-Schlaack, C., Bonn, A. (2019). The Ecosystem Service Concept: Linking Ecosystems and Human Wellbeing. 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_2

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