GEOG 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ecosystem Services, Pollination, Metar
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A lot of these services are not things provided by single species but rather a functioning system --> it is an accumulative output of a system, rather than one single specie. Some of these benefits are very direct (e. g. timber, using it to build a house, very tangible) or indirect (e. g. achieving mental health by surrounding yourself in the environment, very. Types of ecosystem services --> there are 4 types: Supporting services --> services that provide the basic support required for life to exist in the planet, e. g. moving nutrients around, generation of top soils, contributions to the gas composition of the atmosphere. Provisioning services --> products obtained from ecosystems, typically tangible products we get from the environment and use to support our lives (e. g. wood, fuels, minerals, water, food) Without them, we would have uncontrollable biological leaps in the world.
