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The Evidence for Genetic Diversity Effects on Ecosystem Services

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The unprecedented rates of climate and land use change associated with habitat loss and fragmentation entail major risks for biodiversity in general. A loss of within species level variability, i.e.,.

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  1. Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Halle, Germany

    Stefan G. Michalski

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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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Michalski, S.G. (2019). The Evidence for Genetic Diversity Effects on 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_9

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