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The Risk to Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services: A Framework for the Atlas of Ecosystem Services

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Our framework (Fig. 1.1) depicts different components of a dynamic in which ecosystem services are provided and managed [1]. The impact of on ecosystems can lead to a loss of ecological processes and properties, which are the basis for the provision of ecosystem services to society.

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Schröter, M., Kuhlicke, C., Förster, J., Baessler, C., Bonn, A. (2019). The Risk to Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services: A Framework for the Atlas of Ecosystem Services. 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_1

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