ECOLOGICAL SERVICES

ECOLOGICAL SERVICES

Ecological Services

Introduction

The stated topic is about the ecological services. It revolves around the review of ecological services and the identification of important services with reasons. It also includes the discussion about the services that are likely to be declined. Discussion

Concept of Ecological Services

“The concept of ecological services is all about providing the nature benefits to the communities, economies, households and all the other living organisms” (Lehr, 2002). The idea of providing such benefit has enabled ecological services to gain immense importance. There are a lot of advantages of ecological services. It focuses use the measurement of environmental performance and communication environmental issues to people as a base to unite the fields of ecology and economies. Communities have shown their interest in collaborating their community's missions with those of ecological services. There are a lot of examples of ecological services. Some of the typical examples include air purification, water purification, biodiversity maintenance, managing wastes, so that they do not harm any organism, generating soil for vegetation, crops pollination and etc. The services of the ecological system are difficult to understand and are time consuming but, there implications have enormous advantages.

Ecological Services in Water

Clean and fresh water are important for all the human beings, as well as for other living organisms. Ecological services in rivers support living organisms and delivers fresh water to human beings (Miller & Spoolman, 2011). Several countries use ecological services, especially in developed countries in order to get fresh water. Not only in the developed countries, people in some of the developing countries as well, get water for drinking and domestic use, from river ecosystems. There is a strong correlation between the needs of human beings for clean and healthy water and the provision of fresh water from the ecological services ...