Developing a Scientific Basis for Managing Earth's Life Support Systems
Conservation EcologyPublished 1 January 1999Open access
Gretchen C. Daily
Citations141
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The motivation and science behind efforts to characterize and manage ecosystems as capital assets, and some recent work to evaluate the potential for sustaining biodiversity and ecosystem services in human-dominated landscapes are described.
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Here, I review the motivation and science behind efforts to characterize and manage ecosystems as capital assets. I then describe some recent work to evaluate the potential for sustaining biodiversity and ecosystem services in human-dominated landscapes.
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