Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity
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Summary
It is argued that human actions are dismantling the Earth’s ecosystems, eliminating genes, species and biological traits at an alarming rate, and the question of how such loss of biological diversity will alter the functioning of ecosystems and their ability to provide society with the goods and services needed to prosper is asked.
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- review
- Published
- 2012-06-06
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- 7,032
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Keywords
Biodiversity, Humanity, Environmental ethics, Environmental science, Natural resource economics
References
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- Ecosystem services and dis-services to agriculture
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- Extinction and Ecosystem Function in the Marine Benthos
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- Impact of mining and forest regeneration on small mammal biodiversity in the Western Region of Ghana
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- Future effects of climate and land-use change on terrestrial vertebrate community diversity under different scenarios
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