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Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales

Abstract:
Biodiversity enhances many of nature’s benefits to people, including the regulation of climate and the production of wood in forests, livestock forage in grasslands and fish in aquatic ecosystems. Yet people are now driving the sixth mass extinction event in the history of life on Earth. Human dependence and influence on biodiversity have mainly been studied separately and at contrasting scales of space and time, but new multiscale knowledge is beginning to link these relationships. Biodiversity loss substantially diminishes several ecosystem services by altering ecosystem functioning and stability, perhaps especially at the large scales most relevant for policy and conservation.
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10.1038/nature22899

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Springer Nature
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Nature More from this journal
Volume:
546
Issue:
7656
Pages:
65–72
Publication date:
2017-05-31
Acceptance date:
2017-03-29
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1476-4687
ISSN:
0028-0836


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2017-05-02
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