Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Importance of Ecosystem Services - Coggle Diagram
Importance of Ecosystem Services
Provisioning Services
Essential for our survival
Examples products obtained from ecosystem
Food
Water
Fiber
Biochemicals
Regulation Services
Maintain environmental conditions favourable to life
Ensuring of the reproduction of organisms
Maintain the cycling of substances
Examples
Climate regulation
Water regulation
Disease regulation
Water purification
Cultural Srvices
Contribute to a sense of place, foster social cohesion and are essential for human health and well-being
Examples of non-material benefits obtain from ecosystems
Aesthetic
Spiritual and religious
Educational
Sense of place
Supporting Services
Providing living spaces for plants or animals
Maintaining a diversity of plants and animals
'Supporting services' and the basis of all ecosystems and their services
Examples of services necessary for the production of all other ecosystem services
Primary production
Soil formation
Nutrient cycling