Ecosystem services

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  • 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