ecosystem services for decades, these services were popularized and their definitions formalized by the United Nations 2004 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), a four-year study involving more than 1,300 scientists worldwide.[1]This grouped ecosystem services into four broad categories:provisioning, ...
Ecosystem Services, associated with the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP), is an international, interdisciplinary journal that deals with the science, policy and practice of Ecosystem Services defined as the direct and indirect contributions of ecosystems to human wellbeing. Join the conversation about...
Using the main definitions, ecosystem services can be most aspects of ecosystems that link to human wellbeing. • The conceptual definitions of ecosystem services may be divided into four main categories. View article Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...
For example, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) was the first to attempt to group ecosystem services into four categories: provisioning services (e.g. food, fibers, fuel, genetic resources); regulating services (e.g., water purification and regulation, climate regulation, extreme events ...
This grouped ecosystem services into four broad categories: provisioning, such as the production of food and water; regulating, such as the control of climate and disease; supporting, such as nutrient cycles and crop pollination; and cultural, such as spiritual and recreational benefits. As human ...
The services provided by amphibians and reptiles have rarely been considered among motivations for acting on their conservation status (Gratwicke et al. Citation2010). The development of conservation plans for species in these groups and their inclusion in endangered species categories could directly or...
Shennongjia Region, five ecosystem services were selected and classified into three main categories for this study: provisioning services—water yield (WY); regulating services—carbon storage (CS), water purification (WP) and soil conservation (SC); and supporting services—habitat quality (HQ) (...
Percentage of publications on different categories of ecosystem services in the HKH Full size image The overall trend in the provision of ecosystem services increased in recreational value and related activities in the region as most of the areas have become accessible to the visitors. The recreationa...
Such services are broadly grouped under four major categories - provisioning, regulating, cultural and supporting services. Recognizing the important role played by a range of such services in sustaining human life, of late there has been a greater research and policy attention being paid to learn ...
Fig. 7. Map showing the extent to which ecosystem services provide other services from each of the four categories. Thickness of line indicates the number of studied instances where the two services in question were found to be provided together. Services filled in light blue were only associated...