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How do humans benefit from ecosystem services?


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Ecosystem services:

  1. Ecosystem services are also referred to as nature's services.
  2. Our ecosystem or nature provides us with a lot of substances and services that are necessary for our survival.
  3. Various ecosystem services are there that provide us with immense benefits, these include, grassland ecosystem, aquatic ecosystem, forest ecosystem, agroecosystem, and many more.

The benefits that humans get from the ecosystem services are:

Humans get benefitted from various types of ecosystems:

  1. Agroecosystem: This ecosystem is most beneficial to us as it provides us with all the food that we eat.
  2. Forest ecosystem: We get timber, medicines, fruits, etc. from the forests.
  3. Aquatic ecosystem: This ecosystem provides us with various marine animals as food.
  4. Besides these specific ecosystem benefits we get pollination, purified air to breathe, the process of decomposition done by microbes that make our earth clean, and other cultural and spiritual benefits from our ecosystem as services.

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