Hidden challenges behind ecosystem services improvement claims

Summary: Substantial evidence indicates that China’s afforestation statistically contributed to the ecosystem services (ES) improvement. However, we found the potential challenges behind this improvement, especially in water-limited areas. We propose an attribution analysis method, which can assess...

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Main Authors: Qing Yang, Gengyuan Liu, Linyu Xu, Sergio Ulgiati, Marco Casazza, Yan Hao, Zhongming Lu, Xiaoya Deng, Zhifeng Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-09-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004222012007