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SUBMITTER: Ricketts TH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5059779 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20161007
Ecosystem services (ES) are an increasingly popular policy framework for connecting biodiversity with human well-being. These efforts typically assume that biodiversity and ES covary, but the relationship between them remains remarkably unclear. Here we analyse >500 recent papers and show that reported relationships differ among ES, methods of measuring biodiversity and ES, and three different approaches to linking them (spatial correlations, management comparisons and functional experiments). F ...[more]