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Environment and Health: 7. Species Loss amd Ecosystem Disruption - the Implications for Human Health

Author:Chivian Eric
Date:9 January 2001
Description:This article reviews some of the ways plant, animal, and microbial species support human health and, by their interactions with each other and with nonliving components of the environment, produce what are called "ecosystem services," which make all life, including human life, possible on Earth.
Type:Article
URL:http://www.med.harvard.edu/chge/chiviancan.pdf
Date entered:2002-07-24

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