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The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), a major UN-sponsored effort to analyze the impact of human actions on ecosystems and human well-being, identified four major categories of ecosystem services: provisioning, regulating, cultural and supporting services. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), a major UN-sponsored effort to analyze the impact of human actions on ecosystems and human well-being, identified four major categories of ecosystem services: provisioning, regulating, cultural and supporting services.
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Ecosystems provide many of the basic services that make life possible for people.
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 fibers, building materials, drinking water, timber, wood fuel, energy, natural gas, oils, plants that can be made into clothes and other materials, biochemical & genetic resources and medicinal benefits.
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 a benefit provided by ecosystem processes that moderate natural phenomena. Regulating services include disease regulation, pollination, decomposition, water regulation, water purification, soil protection, erosion and flood control, and carbon storage, climate regulation, protection against natural hazards and extreme events.
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. E.g., spiritual and religious values, recreation and tourism, aesthetic value and landscape, inspirational value, education, research, sense of place, and cultural heritage.
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 primary production, 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 .
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