Ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation: concepts and a glossary
Biodiversity and ConservationPublished 30 March 2010
R. Harrington, Christian Anton, Terence P. Dawson, Francesco de Bello, Christian K. Feld, John Haslett
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Abstract
The RUBICODE project draws on expertise from a range of disciplines to develop and integrate frameworks for assessing the impacts of environmental change on ecosystem service provision, and for rationalising biodiversity conservation in that light. With such diverse expertise and concepts involved, interested parties will not be familiar with all the key terminology. This paper defines the terms as used within the project and, where useful, discusses some reasoning behind the definitions. Terms are grouped by concept rather than being listed alphabetically. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
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