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- Biodiversity provides essential benefits to humans, such as climate regulation and resource production, including wood, forage, and fish.
- Human activities are currently causing the sixth mass extinction, threatening these vital ecosystems.
- New research is connecting how human influence on biodiversity impacts ecosystem services, which is crucial for effective policy and conservation efforts.
Article Abstract
Biodiversity enhances many of nature's benefits to people, including the regulation of climate and the production of wood in forests, livestock forage in grasslands and fish in aquatic ecosystems. Yet people are now driving the sixth mass extinction event in Earth's history. Human dependence and influence on biodiversity have mainly been studied separately and at contrasting scales of space and time, but new multiscale knowledge is beginning to link these relationships. Biodiversity loss substantially diminishes several ecosystem services by altering ecosystem functioning and stability, especially at the large temporal and spatial scales that are most relevant for policy and conservation.
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