Ecosystem Services

The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) provides definitions and forecasts for the Ecosystem Services.

Ecosystem services are those ecosystem elements that provide value to humans or can be transformed into useable designed physical systems.

These ecosystem services are part of the natural systems capability. The ecosystem services are classified into the following types (from Table 2.2 High level classification page 19 Ecosystem Services):

Also see EEA ES Classification