Services
Provisioning- Provisioning services is when ecosystems provide many goods
that are essential for life. It provides many products like food, water, wood,
and air. It also provides forest, biodiversity, and raw materials. It benefits
people as the things we extract from nature can then be sold and turned into
products.
Regulating- this is when the ecosystems regulate many environmental
processes like storing greenhouse gases, managing natural disasters like floods,
and pollination.
Supporting - healthy ecosystems support many essential processes like air and
water purification, decomposition and nutrient recycling, and soil weathering.
Cultural- These are services related to cultural meanings of special ecosystems
and aesthetic purposes. it can also serve a psychological benefits. Lots of
people find a sense of happiness in nature.
1. Provisioning Services
When people are asked to identify a service provided by nature,
most think of food. Fruits, vegetables, trees, fish, and livestock
are available to us as direct products of ecosystems. A
provisioning service is any type of benefit to people that can be
extracted from nature. Along with food, other types of
provisioning services include drinking water, timber, wood fuel,
natural gas, oils, plants that can be made into clothes and other
materials, and medicinal benefits.
2. Regulating Services
Ecosystems provide many of the basic services that make life
possible for people. Plants clean air and filter water, bacteria
decompose wastes, bees pollinate flowers, and tree roots hold soil
in place to prevent erosion. All these processes work together to
make ecosystems clean, sustainable, functional, and resilient to
change. A regulating service is the benefit provided by ecosystem
processes that moderate natural phenomena. Regulating services
include pollination, decomposition, water purification, erosion and
flood control, and carbon storage and climate regulation.
3. Cultural Services
As we interact and alter nature, the natural world has in turn
altered us. It has guided our cultural, intellectual, and social
development by being a constant force present in our lives. The
importance of ecosystems to the human mind can be traced back
to the beginning of mankind with ancient civilizations drawing
pictures of animals, plants, and weather patterns on cave walls. A
cultural service is a non-material benefit that contributes to the
development and cultural advancement of people, including how
ecosystems play a role in local, national, and global cultures; the
building of knowledge and the spreading of ideas; creativity born
from interactions with nature (music, art, architecture); and
recreation.
4. Supporting Services
The natural world provides so many services, sometimes we
overlook the most fundamental. Ecosystems themselves couldn't
be sustained without the consistency of underlying natural
processes, such as photosynthesis, nutrient cycling, the creation
of soils, and the water cycle. These processes allow the Earth to
sustain basic life forms, let alone whole ecosystems and people.
Without supporting services, provisional, regulating, and cultural
services wouldn't exist.
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