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Driver
Causation & process
A natural or human-caused factor that causes, regulates, or substantially influences ecological conditions, processes, or system dynamics. Drivers may originate within an ecological system or outside it and may operate across spatial scales.
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. (2005). Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Synthesis. Island Press. Nelson, G. C., et al. (2006). Anthropogenic drivers of ecosystem change: An overview. Ecology and Society, 11(2), 29.
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