What are ecosystem services? Who depends on them?
Ecosystem services are services that humans extract or obtain from ecosystems, such as food and water. Ecosystem services are often thought of as belonging to one of four categories: • Provisioning services, such as food, fresh water, fuel and wood. • Regulating services, such as climate regulation, flood regulation, disease regulation and water purification. • Cultural services, such as the recreational or religious value of ecosystems. • Supporting services, such as soil formation and photosynthesis. Many ecosystem Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Tabla normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:”Calibri”,”sans-serif”; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-as
