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Ecosystem services or eco-services are defined as the goods and services provided by ecosystems to humans. [3] Per the 2006 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), ecosystem services are "the benefits people obtain from ecosystems". The MA also delineated the four categories of ecosystem services into provisioning, regulating, supporting, and ...
Even though this biodiversity is on just 1% of the world land mass, it has both global and local value. Most of the ecosystem services provided by the forests and oceans (e.g. water cycling, carbon cycling) is impartial to political boundaries. New Guinea was identified as the world's most floristically diverse island, with 13,634 known species ...
The ecosystem services provided by intact reefs, seagrasses, and mangroves are both highly valuable and mutually enhance each other. Coastal protection (storm/wave attenuation) maintains the structure of adjacent ecosystems, and associated ecosystem services, in an offshore-to-onshore direction.
Ecological goods and services (EG&S) are the economical benefits (goods and services) arising from the ecological functions of ecosystems. Such benefits accrue to all living organisms, including animals and plants, rather than to humans alone. However, there is a growing recognition of the importance to society that ecological goods and ...
Main ecosystem services of the 3 main types of forest ... [57] [58] reduce available water for humans and wildlife, [59] ... or ecosystem services provided by forests
Natural habitats can provide Ecosystem services to humans, which are "any positive benefit that wildlife or ecosystems provide to people." [10] The natural environment is a source for a wide range of resources that can be exploited for economic profit, for example timber is harvested from forests and clean water is obtained from natural streams.
While material from the ecosystem had traditionally been recognized as being the basis for things of economic value, ecosystem services tend to be taken for granted. [ 45 ] The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is an international synthesis by over 1000 of the world's leading biological scientists that analyzes the state of the Earth's ecosystems ...
More than 20,000 water birds congregate in and around Nagi Dam Bird Sanctuary in winter. The sanctuary is not only popular for the migrating birds but also resident birds. It also has a rich diversity of aquatic flora and fauna. Irrigation and ground water recharge are also key ecosystem services provided by the wetland. [5]