Redefining Landscape Structure for Ecosystem Services
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Redefining Landscape Structure for Ecosystem Services
Our understanding of the effects of landscape structure on ecosystem services (ES) remains at a very early stage, despite a large body of literature on the effects of the composition and configuration of natural land cover on some ES. Here, I argue that a comprehensive understanding of the effects of landscape structure on ES requires us to reconsider what constitutes landscape structure for ES...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Current Landscape Ecology Reports
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2364-494X
DOI: 10.1007/s40823-016-0010-0