Ecosystem services—current challenges and opportunities for ecological research
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Klaus Birkhofer*, Eva Diehl, Jesper Andersson, Johan Ekroos, Andrea Früh-Müller, Franziska Machnikowski, Viktoria L. Mader, Lovisa Nilsson, Keiko Sasaki, Maj Rundlöf, Volkmar Wolters and Henrik G. Smith 1 Biodiversity Unit, Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden 2 Department of Animal Ecology, Justus Liebig University, Gießen, Germany 3 Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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