Ecosystem services

• Cultural services - Enjoyment services (eco-tourism)
• Economic services - The resources and services that can be made into money(lumber, wind)
• Natural Cycle services - Cycles that maintain the enviroment (nitrogen)
• Natural Defence Services - Those that protect us from physical threats(Erosion and Mangroves)
• Disturbance - A change in the environment that causes a change in the community.
• Ecological succession - When a new community replaces an extinct one
• Primary Succession - Life moves into a new spot without life
• Secondary succession - When life existed, soil will be present (There can be some life)
• Pioneer species - First species to appear in primary succession, very hardy
• Small things come first, then larger plants.
• Rocks - moss - grass - shrubs - small trees - big trees
• Ecosystem succession often leads to a stronger ecosystem
• After ecosystem succession you must remove the source of the problem