Benefits Of Ecosystem

Ecosystem is best defined in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) (2005) Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Synthesis. Island Press, Washington page 40 as the collection of interrelated things that work or reside within in one area and that carry immediate impact in changes of one to another, within the environment as a whole. Moreover it goes on to add that Ecosystem services as benefits people obtain from ecosystems and distinguishes four categories of ecosystem services. What are services? These are the benefits that are provided by the ecosystems in the way of making the provision of good. For example, the service of regulation of air is followed by the provision of oxygen by the ecosystem. A specific example being that of forest ecosystems,

Along the point of climate stability, forests have less water lost through evapotranspiration compared to let’s say the desert ecosystem because the floors of the forest are covered in humus and different habitats of the forest floor therefore water is retained within the floor and there is no room at all for the water to evapotranspirate. This then helps humans in that, there is readily available supply of fresh water from the forest, and there is also stability in the climate of that

Why? Because it provide us with a huge amount of different medicine material. Important amounts of the drugs we use are extracted from tropical plants and animals and the majority of drugs used to fight cancer are coming from there as well. Forests contain a potential source of an amazing amount of cures, but most of it hasn’t been discovered yet. Human health is directly linked with the conservation of forests and all of their aspects. Moreover it also provides Eco therapy or earth centered therapy, It is about healing through better understanding the relationship between the earth and humans. It is usually prescribed to the anxiety patient, depression patients among many