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ecosystem services

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ecosystem services
n
(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) the important benefits for human beings that arise from healthily functioning ecosystems, notably production of oxygen, soil genesis, and water detoxification


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ONE chief executive, Alan Clarke, and director of strategy Alan Welby, found out about ecosystem services on the tour along the River Coquet from Harbottle to Amble in Northumberland.
Now it is easier than ever to use CITYgreen to calculate the impacts of land-cover change on the ecosystem services provided by trees such as cleaning our air, reducing airborne carbon, and reducing stormwater runoff.
[15] famously quantifying the cumulative value of global ecosystem services between $US16 and $54 trillion (mean $US33 trillion) per year, largely outside the market and dwarfing the global gross national product of around $US18 trillion.
 
 
 
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