Communications Earth & Environment (Apr 2022)

The relationship between ecosystem services and human modification displays decoupling across global delta systems

  • Martin Oliver Reader,
  • Maarten B. Eppinga,
  • Hugo Jan de Boer,
  • Alexander Damm,
  • Owen L. Petchey,
  • Maria J. Santos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00431-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The direct relationship between societal development and local ecosystem services breaks down at relatively minor levels of human modification of large river delta landscapes, according to a statistical analysis of 235 deltas.