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Uses of Biodiversity Uses of Biodiversity: Villarosa, Shiela May E. Bses 4A

Biodiversity provides essential ecosystem services including nutrient cycling, primary production, and maintaining the balance of nature's complex systems. These services sustain food and materials production, purify air and water, regulate climate, and provide cultural and social benefits like recreation and education. Loss of biodiversity can disrupt these services and negatively impact human well-being.

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Uses of Biodiversity Uses of Biodiversity: Villarosa, Shiela May E. Bses 4A

Biodiversity provides essential ecosystem services including nutrient cycling, primary production, and maintaining the balance of nature's complex systems. These services sustain food and materials production, purify air and water, regulate climate, and provide cultural and social benefits like recreation and education. Loss of biodiversity can disrupt these services and negatively impact human well-being.

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USES OF

BIODIVERSITY
Villarosa, Shiela
May E.
BSES 4A
Biodiversity includes diversity within and among species and ecosystems.
Changes in biodiversity can influence the supply of ecosystem services.
Biodiversity, as with ecosystem services, must be protected and
sustainably managed.
Services Provided by Biodiversity
Services provided by biodiversity can be broadly categorised into three
areas:
 Nutrient cycling: The movement of elements such as nitrogen, sulphur
and phosphorous between different forms as they pass through the
food chain. The elements cycle between gas forms and compounds
which are found in the soil and living organisms. For example the
nitrogen cycle; this is heavily reliant on bacteria and
involves the formation of nitrates (needed for
making proteins which are the functional
molecules in all organisms) from atmospheric
nitrogen and then the break down of nitrogen
compounds to nitrogen gas. The nitrogen cycle
is an important part of soil formation and soil
fertility.
 Primary production: The capturing of energy
from the sun by plants and using this to
convert carbon dioxide into organic
compounds. This provides food for all other
species on the planet. This is part of the
carbon cycle which is being unbalanced by
the release of carbon dioxide by the burning
of fossil fuels.
 Maintaining the dynamic balance of nature’s complex systems:
Habitats and all their constituent parts play an important role in
regulating local and global climate patterns, soil formation, water
purification and nutrient cycling and many other regulatory
functions which help maintain the planet in a state which is self
sustaining. Removing forests can have a dramatic effect on rain fall
patterns and temperatures over large areas. Plants also play a key
role in the water cycle which helps filter water and remove
impurities.
These overarching services provide us with a wide range of
Products including:
• Provision of all food
• Pharmaceutical goods
• Building materials
• Fuel: wood, fuel crops, fossil fuels (created from breakdown
biologically diverse matter over millions of years)
• Genetic resources for medicines, foods and other products

Some more specific services which we all rely on include:


• Purification of air and water
• Detoxification and decomposition of wastes
• Stabilisation and moderation of the Earth’s climate
• Moderation of floods, droughts and temperature
extremes and creation of drainage systems
• Generation and renewal of soil fertility, prevention of
soil erosion, nutrient cycling
• Pollination of plants that provide products and
services
• Control of pests and diseases
• Capacity to regenerate and recover after damage
(both from human and natural causes)
 Cultural and Social Services provided by
biodiversity include:
• A healthy living environment
• Resources for recreation
• Educational resources
• Aesthetical value
• Spiritual meaning
• Artistic inspiration

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