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Trade-Offs and Synergies Between Biodiversity Conservation and Productivity in the Context of Increasing Demands on Landscapes

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A growing human population coupled with increasing per capita consumption, changing diets, increasing food waste, and ineffective regulation, have led to rising demands on ecosystems for the services they supply [1].

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

    Ralf Seppelt, Michael Beckmann, Anna F. Cord & Katharina Gerstner

  2. Institute of Geoscience and Geography, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

    Ralf Seppelt

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

    Silvia Ceauşu, Katharina Gerstner & Marten Winter

  4. Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA

    Jessica Gurevitch

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

    Stephan Kambach & Stefan Klotz

  6. Center for Conservation Biology, Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Chase Mendenhall

  7. Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Helen R. P. Phillips

  8. National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), Annapolis, MD, USA

    Kristin Powell

  9. Department of Earth Sciences, Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter H. Verburg

  10. PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Hague, The Netherlands

    Willem Verhagen

  11. Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, University College London, London, UK

    Tim Newbold

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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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Seppelt, R. et al. (2019). Trade-Offs and Synergies Between Biodiversity Conservation and Productivity in the Context of Increasing Demands on Landscapes. 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_39

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