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Synchronized Peak Rate Years of Global Resources Use Imply Critical Trade-Offs in Appropriation of Natural Resources and Ecosystem Services

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Which ecosystem services are addressed? Most relevant renewable food resources, i.e., provisioning ecosystem services from agriculture (crops, meat, dairy products) and aqua culture

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Seppelt, R., Manceur, A.M., Liu, J., Fenichel, E.P., Klotz, S. (2019). Synchronized Peak Rate Years of Global Resources Use Imply Critical Trade-Offs in Appropriation of Natural Resources and 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_46

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