A Recent Study Showed That in Situations Involving Ecosystem Service

question 58

Multiple Choice

A recent study showed that in situations involving ecosystem service trade-offs, private interests usually win over public interests, and provisioning services win over more general services (such as regulating, supporting, or cultural) .For example, harvesting a forest for timber wins over maintaining the forest for carbon storage, and agriculture wins over maintaining land for clean water and biodiversity.This suggests that in the future, we can expect to see

• A) more use of regulating, supporting, and cultural services.
• B) more careful consideration of the value of ecosystem services.
• C) better methods for calculating the value of ecosystem services.
• D) more use of economically profitable provisioning services.
• E) replacement of ecosystem services by technological services.

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Definitions:

Mutualism

A type of symbiotic relationship between two species where both species benefit from the interaction.

Secondary Succession

The process of ecological recovery in an area where a biological community was partially removed but where soil remains.

Primary Succession

Ecological succession that occurs in an environment in which new substrate devoid of vegetation and usually lacking soil, such as a lava flow or area left from retreated glacier, is deposited.

Forest Fire

Uncontrolled fire occurring in woodland or bush areas, which can have both destructive and beneficial effects on ecosystems.