Biodiversity, ecosystem function, and investment risk

BioScience

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 977-985

  Koellner, Thomas ^a   Schmitz, Oswald J ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ecosystem services; Investment risk; Productivity; Resilience

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845548177     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2006)56[977:BEFAIR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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