Synergies, Trade-offs, and Losses of Ecosystem Services in Urban Regions: an Integrated Multiscale Framework Applied to the Leipzig-Halle Region, Germany

Because we have entered the 'millennium of the cities', urban ecological research needs to account for the provisions ecosystem services provide to urban regions. In urban areas, ecosystem service assessment studies need to account for the complex land use patterns, which change over relat...

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Main Authors: Dagmar Haase, Nina Schwarz, Michael Strohbach, Franziska Kroll, Ralf Seppelt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2012-09-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol17/iss3/art22/