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The Geographical Sciences During 1986—2015

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Ecosystem services, the benefits people obtain from ecosystems, can be comprehended and implemented as integrative indicators in human-environment systems. Researches on ecosystem services have gained an enormous and rising attractiveness for scientists, managers and policy makers since the late 1990s. Chinese scientists caught the international trend on this line of researches and made more and more significant contributions in the last 15 years. This chapter elaborated the development, characteristics, and future potentials of ecosystem service research in China with an international perspective supported by bibliometric analysis, which can be helpful for facilitating the understanding and collaborations for relevant stakeholders.

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  1. Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bei**g, China

    Yihe Lü

  2. Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bei**g, China

    Shuai Wang

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Lü, Y., Wang, S. (2017). Ecosystem Services. In: The Geographical Sciences During 1986—2015. Springer Geography. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1884-8_19

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