Have Ecosystem Services Been Oversold?

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 641-648

  Silvertown, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENCAPSULATION; IDEOLOGY; NEOLIBERALISM; PARADIGM SHIFT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; TRENDS;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS;

EID: 84975759996     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.08.007     Document Type: Review

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