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Significance of Provisioning Services?
Directly provide essential resources like food, water, and timber.
Significance of Regulating Services?
Maintain environmental quality by regulating air, water, and climate.
Significance of Cultural Services?
Provide recreational, aesthetic, and spiritual benefits.
Significance of Supporting Services?
Underpin all other ecosystem services by enabling essential processes.
Importance of Pollination?
Essential for plant reproduction and food production.
Importance of Erosion Prevention?
Maintains soil stability and prevents soil loss, supporting agriculture and water quality.
Importance of Water Flow regulation?
Prevents floods and droughts, ensuring water availability.
Importance of Wastewater treatment?
Naturally filters and cleans wastewater, improving water quality.
Importance of Recreational Values?
Provides opportunities for physical activity and mental well-being.
Importance of Aesthetic Values?
Enhances mental and emotional well-being through the beauty of nature.
Deforestation's impact on CO2?
Reduces carbon sequestration, increasing atmospheric CO2.
Deforestation's impact on soil?
Increases soil erosion, decreasing fertility and water quality.
Deforestation's impact on biodiversity?
Leads to loss of biodiversity, reducing ecosystem resilience.
What is the effect of Air pollution?
Can lead to respiratory problems and harm ecosystems.
What is the effect of Water pollution?
Can contaminate drinking water and harm aquatic life.
What is the effect of Soil degradation?
Can reduce agricultural productivity and increase erosion.
What is the effect of Climate change?
Can alter ecosystems and disrupt ecosystem services.
What is the effect of Overfishing?
Can deplete fish populations and disrupt marine ecosystems.
What is the effect of Habitat loss?
Can reduce biodiversity and disrupt ecosystem services.
What is the effect of Invasive species?
Can outcompete native species and disrupt ecosystems.
Define Ecosystem Services.
Benefits humans obtain from ecosystems.
What are Provisioning Services?
Tangible products obtained from ecosystems.
What are Regulating Services?
Benefits from ecosystem processes regulating natural phenomena.
What are Cultural Services?
Non-material benefits from ecosystems that enrich lives.
What are Supporting Services?
Underlying natural processes that enable all other ecosystem services.
Define Carbon Sequestration.
Absorption and storage of CO2 from the atmosphere.
Define Biological Control.
Managing pests using natural predators/parasites.
Define Photosynthesis.
Conversion of sunlight into energy by plants.
Define Nutrient Cycling.
Movement of essential elements through ecosystems.
Define Soil Formation.
Creation and maintenance of fertile soil.