Ecosystem services are the various benefits that humans derive from healthy ecosystems. These services are categorized into four broad types:
Provisioning services, which include the production of food and water.
Regulating services, such as the control of climate and disease.
Supporting services, which encompass nutrient cycles and oxygen production.
Cultural services, offering spiritual and recreational benefits[1].
Healthy ecosystems provide essential services like natural pollination of crops, clean air and water, decomposition of wastes, and flood control[1]. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment defined ecosystem services as 'the benefits people obtain from ecosystems' and listed these four categories[1].
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