Backyard birders in South Africa may continue to enjoy biodiversity in visiting birds under climate change scenarios, while climate change and declining biodiversity may decrease birding in protected public parks

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Credit: Kyle Manley

Backyard birders in South Africa may continue to enjoy biodiversity in visiting birds under climate change scenarios, while climate change and declining biodiversity may decrease birding in protected public parks.

Article URL: https://plos.io/4ol2UxW

Article Title: Climate change impacts the non-market value of nature: A case study of birding cultural ecosystem services in South Africa

Author Countries: United States

Funding: This work was supported by the Ridge to Reef NSF Research Traineeship, Award DGE-1735040 to KM. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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