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Ecosystem services
Ecosystem services are the services that an ecosystem supplies and on which humans depend.
Ecosystem services from which humans benefit are often categorised as follows:
- provisioning services such as food, water, wood, fibre and genetic resources;
- regulating services such as climate regulation, floods, disease and water quality;
- cultural services such as recreation and ecotourism;
- supporting services such as soil formation, pollination and nutrient cycling.
SEE ALSO
- Biodiversity
- Ecosystem
- European Commission
- Nature protection
- EU biodiversity strategy for 2030 (summary)
- European Green Deal (summary)
- Protecting Europe's biodiversity (Natura 2000) (summary)
- EU Biodiversity strategy for 2030 (European Commission).