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International Trade and Global Flows of Ecosystem Services

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Trade of biomass as food, fodder, and fibres has long had a place in human history, and was theoretically underpinned by David Ricardo’s book The Principles of Trade and Taxation in 1817

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  1. Department of Ecological Services, Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Geosciences, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

    Thomas Koellner & Sebastian Arnhold

  2. Berlin, Germany

    Nikolaus McLachlan

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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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Koellner, T., McLachlan, N., Arnhold, S. (2019). International Trade and Global Flows 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_37

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