Ecosystem services and ecological degradation of communal wetlands in a South African biodiversity hotspot

Wetlands provide important ecosystem services to rural communities. However, wetlands are often on communal land, so they may become degraded when individual users act to maximize their personal benefit from ecosystem services without bearing the full environmental costs of their actions. Although i...

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Main Authors: A. Owethu Pantshwa, Falko T. Buschke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2019-06-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.181770