A call to ecologists: Measuring, analyzing, and managing ecosystem services

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 540-548

  Kremen, Claire ^a   Ostfeld, Richard S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING;

NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 28644448215     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295(2005)003[0540:ACTEMA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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