Ecologist Articles & Analysis
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The team applied the ecosystem services model, an approach used by environmental ecologists to identify and assess the benefits humans receive from natural environmental ecosystems – supporting services for structure, provisioning services to feed the system, and regulating services to maintain system balance. ...
This new report by global NGOs The Nature Conservancy and Wetlands International brings together the latest scientific research from leading engineers and ecologists on coastal protection against waves. The report concludes that “mangroves can reduce the height of wind and swell waves over relatively short distances: wave height can be reduced by between 13 and 66% over 100 ...