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Offshore oil drilling in the United States provides oil that is refined to make many products to provide energy for human civilization.Making this provisioning service possible requires many changes to natural ecosystems.Along the Gulf Coast, thousands of canals, pipelines, and drilling rigs are installed, shipping lanes are dredged, and cypress swamps and other wetlands are destroyed.Which is one ecosystem service lost in trade-off as a result of these changes?


A) Flood control services by wetlands
B) Control over water supplies
C) Easy access to offshore oil
D) Delivery of upstream sediments to the wetlands
E) Control over pollution from oil rigs

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