The Role of Ecosystem Services in Supporting Human Societies.

🌍 Biodiversity is defined as the variability of living organisms and includes diversity within species, between species, and of ecosystems.

🔗 Biodiversity has a close and interdependent relationship with human systems through ecological processes that are perceived as benefits for the development of cultural systems.

💼 Biodiversity impacts political, social, and economic dimensions of human development.

🌍 Ecosystem services are the benefits that humans receive from ecosystems and are the result of interactions between abiotic and biotic factors.

📚 The concept of ecosystem services allows us to understand the interdependence between humans and the natural world, where the conservation of ecosystems directly or indirectly affects all human activities.

🔍 The study of ecosystem services is important for understanding how to sustainably manage and conserve natural resources for the benefit of both humans and the environment.

🌿 The concept of ecosystem services was coined in 1997 and gained attention from the scientific community.

🌍 Ecosystem services are classified into four types: regulation, support, supply, and cultural.

🔍 Regulation services help maintain stable conditions within ecosystems.

🌍 Ecosystem services are essential for the planet's water and climate regulation, erosion control, air quality, flood regulation, and coastal protection.

⏳ Support services play a vital role in enabling other ecosystem services and operate on a larger time scale, such as nutrient cycling, soil formation, primary production, and habitat provision.

🌳 Supply services involve tangible products obtained from ecosystems, like the diverse goods provided by forests.

🌿 Ecosystem services include food, water, energy sources, construction materials, medicines, and ornamental species.

🌍 Cultural services include intellectual and artistic inspiration, cognitive development, recreation, and spiritual enrichment.

🧩 Ecosystem services are the result of interactions between abiotic and biotic factors in ecosystems.

🌍 The well-being of human population depends on ecosystem services.

🔍 Ecosystem services can be categorized into regulation, support, supply, and cultural.