Abstract:1. Biodiversity offsetting is increasingly used to mitigate biodiversity impacts from development, but the practice of offsetting rarely considers how to also mitigate losses of ecosystem services. Offset rules, such as how near an offset must be to an impact site, may help ensure biodiversity offsets also counterbalance losses of ecosystem services but this has not yet well understood.2. We explored how different rules for siting coastal offsets could change net impacts to a provisioning ecosystem service: fi… Show more
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