Geodiveristy

Question 1

what is natural capital?

Answer 1

is the element of nature that directly or indirectly produce value for people.

Question 2

what are examples of natural capital?

Answer 2

natural beauty, medicines, natural barriers. products and services for everyday materials, atmosphere, water, soils, geology, living organisms.

Question 3

what is human-derived capital?

Answer 3

infrastructure and processes which enable people to exploit natural capital stocks.

Question 4

what are examples of human-derived capital?

Answer 4

cultural capital, social, financial, human or produced. humans gain benefits from the natural capital

Question 5

what are ecosystem services?

Answer 5

goods and services which humans derive from the stocks of natural capital.

Question 6

what is supporting ecosystem service?

Answer 6

support production of atmosphere and soil etc

Question 7

what is regulating ecosystems’ service?

Answer 7

what keeps planets within the bounds that are good for the life that has evolved around it.

Question 8

what are provisional ecosystems services?

Answer 8

the stuff that you get out of it such as food, fuel, fibre and water

Question 9

what is cultural service ecosystem service?

Answer 9

recreation and aesthetic value, intangible benefits which we get from nature and have health benefits form.

Question 10

what is ecosystem service very closely associated with?

Answer 10

biodiversity.

Question 11

what is biodiversity?

Answer 11

the variety of plant and animal life in the world or in a particular habitat, a high level of which is usually considered to be important and desirable

Question 12

what is the temporal scale?

Answer 12

a lot of conservation efforts are about conserving what we have now and fighting back processes for what we have got now.

Question 13

what is included in biodiversity?

Answer 13

landscape, ecosystem, habitat, species, and genetics.

Question 14

a question to think about: is biodiversity about the present or the past or the future?

Answer 14

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Question 15

a question to think about: should we look at conserving groups that branch off into their own evolutionary group, or do we focus on ancient groups, or do we look at conserving future evolution?

Answer 15

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Question 16

what is Linnean shortfall?

Answer 16

we don’t know what biodiversity is found on the earth, there are species that are going extinct before we even know they exist.

Question 17

what is Wallancean shortfall?

Answer 17

we don’t know where the biodiversity is found on earth, we don’t know where the species are.

Question 18

what can address both Linnean and Eallancean shortfalls?

Answer 18

Geodiversity, due to the modern surveying in the world. this is a better method than biodiversity, as it addresses everything.

Question 19

what is geodiversity?

Answer 19

Geodiversity is the variety of earth materials, forms, and processes that constitute and shape the Earth, either the whole or a specific part of it. Relevant materials include minerals, rocks, sediments, fossils, soils, and water.

Question 20

what are potential ecosystem services in geodiversity?

Answer 20

human derived capital and natural capital- atmopsheric, biological, hydrological, pedological, and geological.

Question 21

what are true ecosystem services?

Answer 21

ecosystem services that are found where the climate and geodiversity intercept, and where the biodiversity and geodiversity intercept.