What are ecosystem goods and services?
Ecosystem Services are commonly defined as the benefits people obtain from ecosystems. Ecosystem services include basic services – provisioning services like the delivery of food, fresh water, wood and fiber, and medicine – and services that are less tangible and harder to measure but equally critical: regulating services like carbon sequestration, erosion control, and pollination; cultural services like recreation, ecotourism, and educational and spiritual values; and supporting services like nutrient cycling, soil formation, and primary productivity.
