Question

What is the difference between ecosystem functions and ecosystem services?

Answer 1

Ecosystem services:

1. Ecosystem service is any positive benefit that wildlife or ecosystem people provide.
2. Benefits can be direct or indirect, small or large.

Ecosystem function:

An ecosystem function is the ability of natural processes and components to directly or indirectly provide goods and services that satisfy human needs.

Ecosystem services	Ecosystem function
1. Ecosystem services are many and varied benefits to humans provided by the natural environment and healthy ecosystems.	1. An ecosystem function is the ability of natural processes and components to provide goods and services that directly or indirectly satisfy human needs.
2. These ecosystems function in healthy relationships.	2. Ecosystem functions are considered subsets of ecological processes and ecosystem structures.
3. Ecosystems provide natural pollination of crops, clean air, mitigation of extreme weather, and human mental and physical well-being.	3. Natural processes, in turn, are the result of complex interactions between the biological and inorganic components of the organism through the universal impulses of matter and energy.