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Examining Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

The Millenium Ecosystem Assessment Report (MA, 2005), broadly defines ecosystem services as ‘the benefits humans obtain from ecosystems.’ However…. Not operational for all research purposes (Boyd and Banzhaf 2007, Wallace 2007 and Fisher and Turner 2008, Maeler et al. 2008), and efforts have been made to more carefully classify and understand ecosystem service to make their analysis more operational Fisher et al 2009). Ecosystem services are the direct and indirect contributions of ecosystems to human well-being, they support directly or indirectly our survival and quality of life. I. INTRODUCTION TO THE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

3. From an economic standpoint an Ecosystem service is ‘a good or service flowing from an ecosystem that is of value to humans and occurs naturally’. Ej = r (N) Ej = jth ecosystem service N = natural capital (ecosystem structure) r = ecosystem function or process Example: Water quality= r (precipitation, terrain, soils, aquifers, biota) Introduction…

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