crucial ecosystem
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Research problems linked to this topic
- Cities are rapidly growing throughout the world and are altering biologic processes in many regions, with global consequences.
- The demand for food has been ever increasing in proportion with the growing human population.
- Avoiding, reducing, and reversing land degradation and restoring degraded land is an urgent priority to protect the biodiversity and ecosystem services that are vital to life on Earth.
- Increasing research is highlighting the fact that streams provide crucial ecosystem services through the biogeochemical and ecological processes they sustain.
- The demand for a variety of ecosystem services in environmental management has been widely recognized.
- Riparian ecosystems are amongst the most vulnerable ecosystems of the world.
- Increased forest area and wood production is a key goal for the European Union, together with avoidance of hazards that damage forests.
- Intertidal ecosystems are important because of their function as coastal protection and ecological value.