Ecosystem Flashcards
What are the types of ecosystems?
- Terrestrial ecosystems: forests, deserts and grasslands
- Aquatic ecosystems: ponds, lakes, wetlands, and saltwater environments
How many types of ecosystem services are there in what are they?
- Provisioning services
- Regulating services
- Cultural services
- Supporting services
What are provisioning ecosystem services?
Products obtained from ecosystems
Energy, seafood, biomedical transportation, national Defence
What are regulating ecosystem services?
Benefits obtained from the regulation of ecosystem processes
Flood prevention, climate regulation, erosion control, control of pests and pathogens
What are cultural ecosystem services?
Non-material benefits obtained from ecosystems
Educational, recreational, spiritual and heritage
What are supporting ecosystem services?
Services necessary for the production of all other ecosystem services
Biological diversity maintenance, nutrition recycling, primary productivity
What are autotroph?
Also known as producers
They are organisms capable of producing their own food from nonliving sources through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis
