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APES 1.1 - Ecosystem Services
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Lesson 1.1
- Describe ecosystem services.
- Describe the results of human disruptions to ecosystem services.
Ecosystem Services
REGULATING
PROVISIONING
SUPPORTING
CULTURAL
How can humans disrupt these services?
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Regulating Services
Regulating services are ecosystem processes that moderate (or regulate) natural phenomena. All of these processes work together to make ecosystems clean, sustainable, functional, and resilient to change.
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Supporting Services
Supporting services are underlying natural processes that allow ecosystems to exist, such as photosynthesis, nutrient cycling, the water cycle, and the creation of soils. These processes allow the Earth to sustain basic life forms, whole ecosystems, and people. Without supporting services, provisional, regulating, and cultural services wouldn't exist.
Cultural Services
A cultural service is a non-material benefit that contributes to the cultural advancement of people. Cultural services can contribute to the building of knowledge and spreading ideas, inspire creativity born from interactions with nature (music, art, architecture), and recreation such as hiking, horseback riding, swimming, skiing, hunting, etc.
Ecological Impact
Human Activity
Provisioning Services
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 drinking water, timber, wood fuel, natural gas, oils, materials for clothes and other goods, and medicinal benefits.