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  caption: "Coastal ecosystems provide a suite of valuable benefits (ecosystem services) on which \r\nhumans depend for food, economic activities, inspiration, and enjoyment. This schematic \r\nillustrates many of these services situated in a Pacific or Caribbean island setting, but many \r\nof them can also be found along mainland coastlines."
  chapter:
    display_name: 'Chapter 25: Coastal Zone Development and Ecosystems'
  chapter_identifier: coastal-zone
  create_dt: 2013-07-09T12:00:14
  description: "Coastal ecosystems provide a suite of valuable benefits (ecosystem services) on which \r\nhumans depend for food, economic activities, inspiration, and enjoyment. This schematic \r\nillustrates many of these services situated in a Pacific or Caribbean island setting, but many \r\nof them can also be found along mainland coastlines."
  display_name: '25.8: Coastal Ecosystem Services'
  identifier: coastal-ecosystem-services
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  ordinal: 8
  report:
    display_name: 'Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment'
  report_identifier: nca3
  source_citation: ~
  submission_dt: ~
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  title: Coastal Ecosystem Services
  type: figure
  uri: /report/nca3/chapter/coastal-zone/figure/coastal-ecosystem-services
  url: http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/regions/coasts/graphics/coastal-ecosystem-services
  usage_limits: Free to use with credit to the original figure source.