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Scale matters in service supply

Nature Ecology & Evolution volume 7, pages 176–177 (2023)Cite this article

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An analysis of 16 ecosystem services measured across sites in Europe shows that the supply of some services is predicted by plot-scale diversity, whereas others rely on intact habitats at the landscape scale, highlighting the importance of cross-scale management efforts to maintain ecosystem services.

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Fig. 1: Illustrating the multiples scales relevant to ecosystem service supply.

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  1. Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA

    Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer

  2. SPRING, Oakland, CA, USA

    Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer

  3. Natural Capital Project, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

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