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Okay, so this question is asking me about ecosystem services, what they are in some examples.
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And so ecosystem services can be broken up into four main categories, and those are provisioning, supporting, cultural, and regulating.
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And so if we think of a freshwater lake, for example, we can come up with some different services in each of these categories provided by that system.
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And so provisioning services are goods produced or provided by that ecosystem.
00:33
And so in a lake, we could use the fish living in it as a source of food.
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We can also use the lake for a source of freshwater itself.
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If we move on to supporting, those are factors necessary for producing ecosystem services.
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So this is talking about those really large -scale ecosystem processes, such as the hydrological cycle.
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And a freshwater lake plays a huge role in that because, you know, precipitation, runoff, evaporation from the lake control large fluxes in the hydrological.
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Cycle...