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).