Covers all nutritional, non-nutritional material and energetic outputs from living systems as well as abiotic outputs (including water).
Examples: Cultivated and wild plants, reared and wild animals, genetic material, groundwater, mineral substances
Haines-Young, R. and Potschin, M. (2018) Common international classification of ecosystem services (CICES) V5.1 and guidance on the application of the revised structure. Available at: https://cices.eu/resources/%0A%0A.
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